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November 07, 2012

Stimulating without the wink-wink factor

November 7, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
by Sarah Ruhl
State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre

November 7. Tickets $ 25 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until November 24.

In the opening scene of In the Next Room, Sarah Ruhl’s Pulitzer-nominated play from 2009, the intrepid medical scientist, Dr Givings,  makes his confident diagnosis : “Mr Daldry, your wife is suffering from hysteria. It is a very clear …

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November 01, 2012

Endgame

November 1, 2012

Endgame

The Call
by Patricia Cornelius
Junglebean
The Bakehouse
October 27. Season: October 13 – 27, 2012.

Enterprising local company Junglebean, founded several years ago by recent AC Arts acting graduates Renee Gentle, Nic English and Tim Overton, have already  made their mark with productions of Neil Labute’s Autobahn and Jim Cartwright’s Two but it is their preference for Australian works that is especially refreshing. Recently they staged Adelaide director and writer, Michael Hill’s fine play Boxing

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Notes from Underground: Pornography

November 1, 2012

Notes from Underground

Pornography
by Simon Stephens
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
October 27.  Season October 18 – 27. 2012

On July 7th 2005 four young men, three of Pakistani descent, one Jamaican, all aged between 18 and 30, drove from Leeds down to Luton where they caught a train connecting to the London Underground into the city. At 8.50am, three of them triggered suicide bomb devices in their backpacks and caused mayhem …

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Chaff Years

Filed under: Archive,Commentary

I have been asked to provide some reminiscences and perspectives on Massey University’s student paper Chaff during the editorship of Arthur Ranford and Stuart Loudon. For me this was mostly 1969 and 1970. Before that time I had contributed the occasional (woeful) poem or perhaps a book review, but my connection with the paper was through Arthur.

I had known Arthur when we were both at separate high schools in Palmerston North. Arthur was at Freyberg and I was at …

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