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March 29, 2010

Stratospheric

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2010

Stratospheric

Jeff Beck

Her Majesty’s

Adelaide

March 25, 2010

Murray Bramwell

What is it about The Yardbirds ?  There was definitely something in the water in 1965. Three guitarists and three legends.  First, Eric Clapton, aka God, who soon left for John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and a career via Cream, the Dominos, and then as a bandleader defining blues rock guitar for a long, lucrative, and sometimes repetitive, career. Later, there was Jimmy Page, who as the chords, riff and …

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March 18, 2010

Adelaide Festival Theatre

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The Sound and the Fury
(April Seventh, 1928)
Text by William Faulkner
Elevator Repair Service
Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre .
March 11, 2010

Ngurrumilmarrmiriyu (Wrong Skin)
Written by Nigel Jamieson in association with Joshua Bond,
the community and elders of Elcho Island and The Chooky Dancers.
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide. March 12, 2010

The American novelist William Faulkner took the title of his 1929 masterwork from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, …

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March 02, 2010

Adelaide Festival Theatre

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The Life and Death of King John
by William Shakespeare
The Eleventh Hour
Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide. February 25.
Tickets $25 – $49. Bookings BASS 131 246
or adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 7.

Vs Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
The Border Project and Sydney theatre Company
Odeon Theatre, Adelaide. February 27.
Tickets $16 -$39. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until March 6.
Wharf 2 season opens March 20

Even though, in its fiftieth year, the Adelaide Festival’s theatre program is a diminished one, it …

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A World of Difference

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Womadelaide 2010
Botanic Park
March 5-8.

Murray Bramwell previews highlights from this week’s Womadelaide

To mark the new decade, and fifty years of the Adelaide Festival, Womadelaide 2010 is bigger than ever. Stretched to a fourth day, it now finishes on the night of the March Monday holiday. The program has added eight more acts, four international, four Australian, and claims performances from more than 500 artists from 27 countries.

Womadelaide remains one of South Australia’s most successful major events. …

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March 01, 2010

A World of Difference

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Womadelaide

2010
A World of Difference

Womadelaide 2010
Botanic Park
March 5-8.

Murray Bramwell previews highlights from next month’s Womadelaide

To mark the new decade, and fifty years of the Adelaide Festival, Womadelaide 2010 is bigger than ever. Stretched to a fourth day, it now finishes on the night of the March Monday holiday. The program has added eight more acts, four international, four Australian, and claims performances from more than 500 artists from 27 countries.

Womadelaide remains one of South …

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February 28, 2010

The Fringe program has been living up to expectations

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Not to be missed are – (I don’t really approve of stars but life is short in March at Festival and Fringe time)
My Name is Rachel Corrie (Five stars)
The Sociable Plover (Four stars)
The Event (Four stars)
Death in Bowengabbie (Four stars)
Fiona O’Loughlin (Four stars)
Heroin(e) for Breakfast (Four stars)

Well worth seeing
3xperimentia: Live Cut (Three and a half stars)
Based upon a True Story (Ladykillers) (three and a half)
Adventures of Alvin Sputnik (three and …

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February 27, 2010

Adelaide Fringe 2010

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February 19 to March 14

Bookings : FringeTIX – 1300 FRINGE (1300 374 643)

The Fringe has been under way for a week now. The carny playground, of sideshows and spruikers, big tops and little, known as The Garden of Unearthly Delights has been going even longer. Sprawled across Rundle Park just over the road from the city’s favourite café and restaurant precinct, it is again proof that the Fringe captures the whole city. Last Friday an estimated 80,000 lined …

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The Fringe in all Directions

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Adelaide Fringe Theatre 2010

Previewed by Murray Bramwell

Like its dirigible-sized, tu-tu clad lunar mascot in Victoria Square, the Adelaide Fringe expands ever more. This year’s model claims 705 events, the largest ever here, and second only to the Edinburgh mothership anywhere in the galaxy.

All this plenitude is a boon to Adelaide audiences, with ticket pre-sales going bananas and the throng to the Garden of Unearthly Delights already well established.

The Fringe has the best of all worlds. Those …

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Adelaide Festival and Fringe 2010

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Both events are now very much underway.

The Northern Lights have been switched on and the Festival opera Le Grande Macabre, big in every sense – budget, ambition and scale – has opened. The ASO is in fine form with Ligeti’s challenging but often hypnotic score and the carnivalesque nature of its boisterous storyline – part medieval morality, Spanish surrealism, Jarry’s randomly absurdist Ubu and Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty, it is a stew of avant garde references and turbulent comedy, …

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February 21, 2010

Adelaide Theatre

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True West
by Sam Shepard
Flying Penguin Productions
The Studio, Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh, Adelaide.
May 2 . Tickets $18 – $28.
Bookings BASS 131 246 or Venuetix 8255 8888
Until May 16.

Increasingly, it seems, professional theatre in Adelaide is looking to the efforts of dedicated individuals. With only the flagship State Theatre Company and a small and under-resourced scattering of second-tier outfits, the city has always depended on the kindness of free-lances. Significant among them has been David …

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