Murray Bramwell<\/p>\n
Horse Country
\nby C.J. Hopkins
\nClancy Productions
\nEclipse, FringeHUB, Level 4 , Adelaide University
\nUntil 6 March. Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004.
\nTickets $15 – $29.
\nSydney season Belvoir Street Downstairs
\n9 – 28 March.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati
\nby Don Nigro
\nClancy Productions
\nEclipse, FringeHUB, Level 4 , Adelaide University
\nUntil 6 March. Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004.
\nTickets $15 – $29.
\nSydney season Belvoir Street Downstairs
\n9-28 March<\/p>\n
Morph
\nby Brendan Cowell
\nFresh Track Productions
\nLittle Theatre, FringeHUB, Adelaide University
\nuntil 14 March. Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004
\nTickets $17 -$22<\/p>\n
Notes From Underground
\nadapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky
\nTheatre Simple
\nCinema, FringeHUB, Adelaide University
\nuntil 2 March. Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004
\nTickets $10 – $18.<\/p>\n
Songs for the Deaf
\nby Caleb Lewis
\nFresh Track Productions
\nNorth South Dining Room, FringeHUB, Adelaide University
\nuntil 14 March. Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004
\nTickets $ 16- $20. <\/p>\n
The first weekend of theatre in the Adelaide Fringe has opened strongly with a number of works interestingly clustered around the theme of imprisonment within the self. \u201cToo much consciousness is a disease,\u201d remarks the Underground Man in Seattle based Theatre Simple\u2019s production of Notes From Underground, Dostoevsky\u2019s prophetic text from 1864. Andrew Litzky\u2019s versatile performance conjures both the desperation and ironic comedy of a man refusing to conform to the demands of his society. Part existential rebel, part George from Seinfeld, he runs like an open razor through St Petersburg causing us to laugh even as we cringe in recognition.<\/p>\n
In the two works by New York\u2019s Clancy Productions such displacement is also apparent. In Horse Country, Sam and Bob ( Ben Schneider and Kurt Rhoads) are two guys in a bar, downing Wild Turkey and talking the time away. They talk as if their lives depend on it, like the tramps in Beckett\u2019s Godot, except their cadences are in the hypermanic style of David Mamet. What we have here is a failure of communication, says Sam, quoting Cool Hand Luke, as the play zigzags from musings on American history and its frontier origins to the maze and the muddle of contemporary life. The actors give splendidly fluent performances, but author CJ Hopkins\u2019s text is sometimes even more elusive than the nine of diamonds that Sam and Bob keep looking for. <\/p>\n
Cincinnati is the title of Don Nigro\u2019s play and it is also the site of pain. Susan teaches Philosophy and Literature and the subject of her lecture is death and suffering. Although it soon becomes clear that she is talking about herself. Nancy Walsh, directed by her husband John Clancy, brings poignant detail to a funny, bitter, sometimes terrifying portrait of a woman barely hanging on to her sanity after tragedy. <\/p>\n
Brendan Cowell\u2019s Morph examines the ways in which the body becomes identity. Grace Black (Melanie Vallejo) is a dancer whose strict diet and physical regimen is an end in itself and Be, (Brendan Rock) is a man literally broken by attempts at suicide. When they meet in an improbable fairytale way they transform into each other – Grace gives up her dancing while Be becomes a fitness fanatic. The cyclic nature of these changes is sardonically explored in Cowell\u2019s imaginative but uneven text, directed by Geordie Brookman, with excellent music from Mark Harding and Liam Gerner. <\/p>\n
Also from Fresh Track Productions is Songs For the Deaf, three short plays from talented newcomer Caleb Lewis. His writing captures the harshness and suspicion of social encounter – as in Bunny, where a young woman in a rabbit suit (Romy Loor) exits pursued by a bear. Or rather, a young man (Andrew Brackman) dressed as one. The monologue Rocket Baby features Becca, a primary school girl recalling how her dad tried to film the kids to send to Australia\u2019s Funniest Home Videos in the hope of enticing their mother to return. Directed by Iain Sinclair, Roberta Tyrell, as Becca, ably navigates the escalating horror of Lewis\u2019 macabre little satire. <\/p>\n
\u201cGotta get out of Displace\u201d The Australian, February 24, 2004. p.12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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