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June 30, 2009

Modern take on a timeless tale sure to bring the house down

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

The Wizard of Oz
By L.Frank Baum
Windmill
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
June 30. Tickets: $29. Group of 6 – $24.
Bookings BASS 131 246
Until July 11.
Sydney Theatre Company season
October 23- November 1.

It is 70 years since, in the legendary MGM movie, Judy Garland’s Dorothy was mysteriously transported from her monochrome mid-western farm to the technicolor Land of Oz. Now, Windmill theatre director, Rosemary Myers, has given the L.Frank Baum classic a new spin with …

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June 20, 2009

Adelaide Cabaret Festival

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

Generation Why
Hayden Tee
Dunstan Playhouse
June 10.
Magpie Blues
Ursula Yovich
The Space
June 17.
Adelaide Festival Centre.
Bookings BASS 131 246. Cabaret Festival until June 20.

It perhaps comes as no surprise that a show called Generation Why ? raises more questions than it answers. Now in his late 20s, talented singer Hayden Tee is contemplating his Saturn Return, that point in the astrological cycle when thresholds are crossed and life choices are consolidated. For Mr Tee everything …

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June 08, 2009

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2009

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

Variety Gala
June 5.
Bernadette Peters
June 6
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
Bookings BASS 131 246. Cabaret Festival until June 20.

This year sees the Adelaide Cabaret Festival putting on the Ritz. In his gold lame jacket Artistic Director, David Campbell is looking anything but shy as he and his co-producer wife, Lisa Campbell step out on the Adelaide Festival Centre’s opening night red carpet. Now it’s time to see whether his program is going to cut a rug …

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June 01, 2009

Phases and Stages

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Murray Bramwell surveys theatre during The Adelaide Review’s quarter century.

With the Adelaide Review celebrating 25 years publication earlier this year it is a good time, in the immortal words of Dame Edna Everage, to look back retrospectively. In 1984 the two strands of theatre in Adelaide – amateur and professional – were , and still are , recognisably evident . The Adelaide Rep was the stalwart it remains, as were the Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Therry,
Matt Byrne Productions, …

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Phases and Stages

Filed under: Archive,Theatre

Murray Bramwell surveys theatre during The Adelaide Review’s quarter century.

With the Adelaide Review celebrating 25 years publication earlier this year it is a good time, in the immortal words of Dame Edna Everage, to look back retrospectively. In 1984 the two strands of theatre in Adelaide – amateur and professional – were , and still are , recognisably evident . The Adelaide Rep was the stalwart it remains, as were the Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Therry,
Matt Byrne Productions, …

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