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September 22, 2010

God of Carnage

Filed under: 2010,Archive

September 21, 2010
Adelaide
Theatre

God of Carnage
by Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
September 21. Tickets  $ 29 – 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until October 10.  South Australian Regional Tour: October 12 -23.

The  film-maker Luis Bunuel memorably satirised the discreet charm of the bourgeoise and, this century, French playwright Yasmina Reza has found considerable success in showing audiences that the middle classes are neither …

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September 19, 2010

Through the unknown, remembered gate

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Books

South-West of Eden
A Memoir 1932
By C.K. Stead
University of Auckland Press
RRP $ 45.
ISBN 9781869404543

It was T.S. Eliot who wrote, in “East Coker” – “In my beginning is my end.” In a quite different, earlier poem, he produced the variant line – “our beginnings never know our ends”, adding the notion of intention to that of destination in the word “end”. In South-West of Eden, C.K. Stead’s richly textured meditation on the first 23 – …

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Harbinger

Filed under: 2010,Archive

August 31, 2010
Adelaide
Theatre

BRIEF
Harbinger
by Matthew Whittet
Brink Productions
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
August 31. Tickets  $ 26.95 – 54. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until September 11.

When Chris, a young man minding his own business (Nathan O’Keefe) , happens upon Maddy, a late-teens uni student with blood gushing from her neck (Yael Stone) , Matthew Whittet’s gen-X comedy drama, Harbinger foreshadows scary monsters before dawn’s early light.

Since Trueblood we have known that vampires …

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OzAsia Festival

Filed under: 2010,Archive

Attention- Matthew Westwood/ Rosemary Sorensen
Reviews Editor, The Australian
September 18.
Adelaide

OzAsia Festival
Adelaide Festival Centre
September 17- October 2.
Bookings : BASS 131 246

Hamlet
By William Shakespeare
Yohangza Theatre Company
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
September 16.

Dialogue in Skin
Hands Percussion
Her Majesty’s Theatre
September 17.

Now in its fourth year, the Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival, this time, has a focus on Korea. And the first weekend has opened auspiciously with the Yohangza Theatre Company’s …

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September 07, 2010

An Actor Prepares

Filed under: Archive,Interviews

May 2010
Adelaide Theatre

Carmel Johnson talks with Murray Bramwell about her part in State Theatre Company’s current production of Arthur Miller’s The Price.

It has been a busy time for Carmel Johnson. One of Adelaide’s most respected and versatile actresses, she has been on a two year roller-coaster with Brink Productions’ staging of Andrew Bovell’s hit play When the Rain Stops Falling. Opening at the 2008 Adelaide Festival the production has had seasons in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra …

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