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June 19, 2012

War Mother

Filed under: 2012,Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

May 31, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

War Mother
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Theatre
May 30. Tickets $ 18 – $ 30
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until June 2.
Metro/Regional tour June 4 – 22.

Interweaving scripts by Harold Pinter, Franca Rame and Dario Fo, and Dutch playwright Marjolijn van Heemstra, State Theatre’s War Mother describes the pity and terror of war from maternal perspectives – whether as the mother of a militant son, or a woman vainly …

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May 15, 2012

Lost in sea of troubles

Filed under: 2012,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

May 14, 2012

Adelaide
Theatre

Land & Sea
by Nicki Bloom
Brink Productions
Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide
May 12. Tickets $ 25 – $ 45
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until May 26.

“Land&Sea”, Nicki Bloom explains in her program notes, “exists in the in-between space. In between consciousness and unconsciousness, knowing and not knowing”. Which is where, it might be added, all music and most poetry comes from. Brink Productions newest work, directed by Chris Drummond and performed …

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May 09, 2012

The Glass Menagerie

Filed under: 2012,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

May 9, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
State Theatre Company
The Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Theatre
May 8. Tickets $ 25 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until May 26.

Tennessee Williams called it “the saddest play I have ever written” and, first performed in 1944, The Glass Menagerie is certainly his most autobiographical. “The play is memory”, the narrator, Tom, informs us in the startlingly direct opening address – “Being a memory play, it …

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April 21, 2012

The City

Filed under: 2012,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

April 14 , 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

The City
by Martin Crimp
nowyesnow
The Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide
April 13. Tickets $ 17 – $ 25
Bookings : 8277 0505,  www.bakehousetheatre.com
Until April 28.

“Why is it“, asks one of the characters in Martin Crimp’s 2008 play The City, “that our hopes make us so sad ?” It is one of the very few direct comments anyone makes in this captivating, eighty minute maze of disconnected details, emotions, lacunae and cul-de-sacs.…

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March 16, 2012

A Streetcar

Filed under: 2012,Archive,Festival

March 14 , 2012
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

A Streetcar
Based on A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Odeon – Theatre de l’Europe
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
March 14. Tickets $ 30 – $ 129
Bookings : BASS 131 246/ adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 18.

First performed in 1947, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is a 20th century classic, and one destined to endure because, in director Elia Kazan’s 1951 film version, we have a permanent record of many …

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Capacity crowd gathers to celebrate a world of diversity

Filed under: 2012,Archive,Womadelaide

March 13, 2012

Adelaide Festival 2012

WOMADelaide 2012
Botanic Park, Adelaide
March 9 – 12.

It is now twenty years since the first WOMAD, scheduled as part of the 1992 Adelaide Festival, introduced world music to Australian audiences. The original program lineup was modest in number but not in stature – introducing, among others, Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour, violinist Dr L. Subramaniam, and, memorably, the charismatic Pakistani qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. From there, this unique festival established a …

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WOMADelaide – 20 Years in the World

Filed under: 2012,Archive,Womadelaide

March 9, 2012

WOMADelaide – 20 Years in the World

As Adelaide’s most cherished musical festival celebrates a major milestone it is timely to consider just how far it has come since 1992 when that strange acronym was first welded on to our city’s name – and WOMADelaide arrived. Rob Brookman had programmed this weekend of something called ‘world music’ as part of his Adelaide Festival, and he (and Administrator Ian Scobie) negotiated with UK Director Thomas Brooman to bring …

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March 13, 2012

The Caretaker

Filed under: 2012,Archive,Festival

March 10 , 2012
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

The Caretaker
by Harold Pinter
A Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse production
in association with the Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre
and Theatre Royal Bath
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide
March 10. Tickets $ 30 – $ 119
Bookings : BASS 131 246/ adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 23.

Harold Pinter once said : “I can sum up none of my plays, I can describe none of them, except to say: That is what happened. That is …

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Hard to be a God

Filed under: 2012,Archive,Festival

March 8, 2012
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

Hard to be a God
Directed by Kornel Mundruczo
Old Clipsal Site, Bowden
March 8. Tickets $ 30 – $ 69
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or Adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 14

Hard to be a God, the much- awaited festival production by Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo and his ensemble, takes its name from a 1964 sci-fi novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In the novel, a traveller from the future planet Earth, studies an …

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School Dance

Filed under: 2012,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

School Dance
By Matthew Whittet
Windmill Theatre
in association with Adelaide Festival
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre .
March 6. Tickets : $ 20 – $30
Bookings: BASS 131 246, adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 10.

The school dance is a big deal – and an ordeal – if you are not numbered among the anointed popular. Windmill’s captivating new work not only explores the status anxiety of teenagers, it takes them through a hole in the fabric of time to make …

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