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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Chaff Years
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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