Elevator Repair Company
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

Curiously and successfully blending narration with performance, Gatz brings an American classic into fresh perspective.

Murray Bramwell

As is often the case, the final weekend of the Adelaide Festival delivers up unexpected highlights – and Gatz is certainly one. We have been uplifted before by the Brooklyn-based Elevator Repair Company when they presented William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury in 2010.

Taking the novel’s first section, narrated by the mentally disabled mute, Benjy, …

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Adelaide Festival – Theatre

Isabelle Huppert is superb as Mary Queen of Scots in an unorthodox monologue that explores the woman who would be queen. And Adelaide finally has a chance to see the theatrical vision of Robert Wilson.

Murray Bramwell

Much is known about the last 24 hours in the life of Mary Queen of Scots before her execution at 8am on February 8, 1587. Her night prayers with household servants, were documented, as were her farewell letters (including …

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