September 13, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

Buried Child
by Sam Shepard
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
September 13 . Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until October 2.

When we enter the ruined farmhouse of Sam Shepard’s 1979 Pulitzer prize winning play Buried Child we go through a familiar portal in American writing. This mix of realism and the grotesque, of Greek tragedy and grim comedy, is the territory of Eugene …

August 9, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
August 9. Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until August 28.

In Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, the second last of the extraordinary quartet of plays he wrote between 1895 and the year of his death in 1904, the characters have often been described as exiles – in time, as well as place. Not only are …