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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

Filed under: 2010,Archive

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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