Adelaide
\nCome Out Festival 2013
\nMay 22 \u2013 31.<\/p>\n
Random
\nby debbie tucker green
\nState Theatre Company
\nThe Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
\nMay 29.<\/p>\n
The Vistors
\nby Sean Riley
\nUrban Myth Theatre Company
\nThe Goodwood Institute, Adelaide
\nMay 31. Tickets : $ 18.50
\nBookings: BASS 131 246 or bass.net.au
\nUntil June 8.<\/p>\n
The Moon is a Balloon
\nDevised and performed by Patch Theatre
\nOdeon Theatre, Norwood, Adelaide.
\nJune 1.<\/p>\n
Come Out, Adelaide\u2019s leading festival for young people began in 1974 and has been a biennial event since 1975. For its 21st<\/sup> incarnation, Creative Director, Michael Hill has assembled a statewide program involving more than 100,000 school children and their families, and gathered artists and performance works from across Australia, Europe and North America.<\/p>\n Three Adelaide companies featured distinctively in the final week. State Theatre\u2019s Random<\/i>, a fifty minute monologue by Caribbean English writer, debbie tucker green , poignantly charts the feelings and reactions of a family of four from an ordinary breakfast to a tragic afternoon.<\/p>\n Performed by Zindzi Okenyo (tautly directed by Nescha Jelk) Random<\/i> vividly describes both the prosaic and the unbearable as tucker green threads the unnamed voices of a busy housemother, an uncommunicative father, a laddish, easy-going son and his restless, querulous sister. Gradually the morning gripes give way to panic as police arrive to inform them that the son has been murdered in a city high street in a random race attack. The suspicions, fears, hatreds and despair of a black family unfold and it is the daughter who is left to ask \u2013\u2018Random don\u2019t happen to everybody. So. How come \u2018random\u2019 haveta happen to Random<\/i> is a challenge for young audiences unfamiliar with the Caribbean patois and UK references but Okenyo\u2019s skillfully sustained cadence, and the directness of the text, held the schools performance I attended in pin-drop silence.<\/p>\n The Visitors<\/i>, a new play by Sean Riley (directed by Glenn Hayden) is also about domestic calamity. In this instance an exuberant, blended family of five has to come rapidly to terms with the father\u2019s early onset dementia.<\/p>\n Nicholas Garsden leads energetically as Tom Peel, the father becoming a stranger to himself and a visitor to his receding family, with fine support from Ashton Malcolm, Bridget Walters, and bright young performers from Urban Myth including Maiah Stewardson, Finn Caulfield and Ella Lawry. The Visitors<\/i> takes us to some painful truths but Sean Riley\u2019s lively, often quirky, text and Hayden\u2019s heart-felt production remind us that facing them is the first step to overcoming them.<\/p>\n A world away from these tribulations is The Moon is a Balloon<\/i>, the newest work for 3 to 8 year olds from the excellent Patch Theatre. It is a visual delight choreographed for performers Katrina Lazaroff and Rob Griffin, using white balloons of all sizes in a mix of play, dance and comic slapstick. Directed by Dave Brown, with delectable projections and lighting from David Gadsden and music of the spheres played live by guitarist Josh Bennett, it is sublime theatre for any age.<\/p>\n Murray Bramwell<\/p>\n \u201cMatters of life, death \u2026and slapstick\u201d The Australian, June 5, 2013, p.12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adelaide Come Out Festival 2013 May 22 \u2013 31. Random by debbie tucker green State Theatre Company The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre May 29. The Vistors by Sean Riley Urban Myth Theatre Company The Goodwood Institute, Adelaide May 31. Tickets : $ 18.50 Bookings: BASS 131 246 or bass.net.au Until June 8. The Moon is a Balloon Devised and performed by Patch Theatre Odeon Theatre, Norwood, Adelaide. June 1. 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