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 …
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 …
Continue Reading Back to topAdelaide 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 …
Continue Reading Back to topBoth 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, …
Continue Reading Back to topTrue 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 …
Continue Reading Back to topThings We Do For Love
By Alan Ayckbourn
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
October 6. Tickets $45 – $60. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until October 17.
While it is the chirpy Seventies tune from 10CC which lends its name to State Theatre’s latest offering, it is another song used in the production – Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart – which equally matches the mood of the play.
The prolific Alan Ayckbourn is …
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, …
The Pyjama Girl
Devised and performed by Ladykillers
Vitalstatistix in association with Adelaide Festival Centre inSpace program.
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
December10. Tickets $18 – $25. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until December 19.
In a week when there has been much discussion about gender representation in Australian theatre, we should remember Adelaide-based company, Vitalstatistix, has marked twenty five years of women doing it for themselves. As part of their current season they have programmed The Pyjama Girl, a new …
Continue Reading Back to topNgaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime
By Joanne Drayton
HarperCollins, $59.99.
ISBN 9781869506353
Murray Bramwell
Whatever it was that impelled Ngaio Marsh, at the age of 36, to purchase six exercise books and a handful of pencils and go back to her cold London flat and begin writing a detective novel, is only one of the many mysteries of her long and remarkable life. Perhaps being born in Christchurch in 1895 on April 23 – St George’s Day, but also …
Continue Reading Back to topThe Wizard of Oz
By L.Frank Baum
Windmill
Dunstan Playhouse, June 30.
Mnemonic
Conceived by Simon McBurney and Devised by Complicite
State Theatre Company of South Australia
In association with Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE Program
Space Theatre, July 2 .
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Nothing can quite match The Wizard of Oz. Ever since Judy Garland, as Dorothy, was spun from black and white Kansas into the dazzling lolly- coloured world of Oz in the 1939 MGM film version, the …
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