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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

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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March 06, 2012

Multiple perspectives on feeling and falling

Filed under: 2012,Archive,Fringe

March 3, 2012

Adelaide Fringe 2012

Adelaide Fringe
Bookings : FringeTix, 1300 FRINGE
February 24 – March 18

It is an understatement to say the Adelaide Fringe is thriving, its continued expansion is simply extraordinary. Last year’s program set new records with 729 listed events, and now, in 2012, it has ramped up to 923. In these cautious, even gloomy times, nothing, it seems, is deterring artists – aspiring and established – from putting on a show.

Celebrating ten years …

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The Ham Funeral

March 1 , 2012
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

The Ham Funeral
by Patrick White
State Theatre Company
Odeon Theatre, Queen Street
February 27. Tickets $ 25 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or Adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 18

For his 2012 Festival production, State Theatre’s departing artistic director, Adam Cook has shown an astute sense of occasion. Not only is this year the centenary of Patrick White’s birth but it is just over fifty years since the programming of The …

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Malmo

February 29, 2012
Adelaide Festival

Malmo
Torque Show
Presented by Vitalstatistix Theatre Company
in association with Adelaide Festival
Waterside, Port Adelaide.
February 28. Tickets : $ 25 – $35
Bookings: BASS 131 246, adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 4.

“This is not a house, it’s a machine for living” the bright young couple exults, “It is a 3D mirror of who you are.” Malmo, a dance theatre work devised by performers Vincent Crowley and Ingrid Weisfelt, along with director Ross Ganf, takes …

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