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March 03, 2014

Fringe Wrap 2014

Filed under: 2014,Archive,Fringe,International

The Daily Review

Fringe Report
Adelaide Fringe 2014

Murray Bramwell

The Adelaide Fringe is like a shoebox full of grasshoppers. And it keeps getting voraciously bigger and busier. Second only in size and influence to the Edinburgh Fringe (on which it was modelled forty four years ago), the Fringe went annual in 2008 and each year has set new records for attendance and box office. In 2014, the Fringe has more than 970 events scattered across the Adelaide inner city …

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Thoroughly modern classic Rome

Filed under: 2014,Archive,Festival,International,Theatre

Adelaide Festival
Theatre

Roman Tragedies
By William Shakespeare
Adapted by Bart van den Eynde, Jan Peter Gerrits,
and Alexander Schreuder
Translated by Tom Kleijn
Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
Duration 5 hours 45 minutes
March 1. Until March 2.

We are well used to up-dated reinterpretations of Shakespeare; they have long been the new orthodoxy. But Roman Tragedies, from Netherlands company, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, is as current as breaking news and infinitely more penetrating. Director Ivo van Hove …

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March 01, 2014

A familiar blend of comedy and fantasy

Filed under: 2014,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Adelaide Festival
Theatre

Girl Asleep
By Matthew Whittet
Windmill Theatre.
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
Duration 1 hours 20 minutes
February 28. Tickets $ 29 – $ 39
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 15.

It is Greta Driscoll’s fifteenth birthday and everybody is having a great time except her. She’s in her bedroom, miserable, quarrelling with only best friend Elliot, and besieged by family and mean girls from school. Then Greta retreats into somnolence and Girl …

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February 25, 2014

Music World

Filed under: 2014,Archive,Music,Theatre,Womadelaide

Murray Bramwell previews a selection of the singers and sounds from Womadelaide 2014, opening March 7 to 11. Botanic Park, Adelaide.

For more than twenty years the first week in March in Adelaide has heralded, not just the Festival and Fringe, but Womadelaide, the enduringly popular music event with the portmanteau name that is both a local and national institution. First staged in 1992, under the wing of Rob Brookman’s Festival, Peter Gabriel’s UK concert venture Womad (that’s acronym for …

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Over a century later Chekhov still delights

Filed under: 2014,Archive,Festival,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Adelaide Festival
Theatre

The Seagull
By Anton Chekhov
Adaptation by Hilary Bell
State Theatre Company.
The State Theatre Company Scenic Workshop,
Adelaide Festival Centre.
Duration 2 hours 20 minutes
February 25. Tickets $ 26 – $ 67
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 16.

In a letter, written in 1895, to his friend Suvorin, Anton Chekhov described his new play The Seagull : “It’s a comedy with three female and six male roles, four acts, a landscape …

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February 19, 2014

Festival Trifecta

Filed under: 2014,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Murray Bramwell talks with Rosemary Myers about Windmill Theatre’s program of new work and revivals in the Adelaide Festival.

If you look under “Our Claims to Fame’ on Adelaide’s Windmill Theatre’s website there is a list of awards and nominations the company has received over the past five years – and it is astonishing. Last year alone, for their hit show School Dance, there were six Helpmann nominations (including two winners –Best Presentation for Children and Best Supporting Actor …

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November 13, 2013

Bitterly funny refuge in financial dependency

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Australian Texts,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Adelaide Theatre

Maggie Stone
by Caleb Lewis
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre.
November 12. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until November 30 .
Duration : 100 minutes, no interval.

It was Polonius, in Hamlet who said : “Neither a borrower or a lender be/ For loan oft loses both itself and friend.” He’s right, but that’s not how we live in the world. In his astutely incisive, often bitterly funny, new …

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October 16, 2013

When truth and faith collide, twice

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Australian Texts,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Adelaide Theatre

Vere (Faith)
by John Doyle
State Theatre Company
And Sydney theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.
October 16. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until November 2 .
Duration : 2 hours 30 minutes including interval

Vere is the name of the central character in John Doyle’s engaging new play about an Australian physicist on the brink of a momentous discovery. In its Slavic origins, Vere means faith, but in Latin it …

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September 15, 2013

Coward’s ironies lost in the action

Filed under: 2013,Archive,International,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Brief Encounter
by Noel Coward
Adapted and directed by Emma Rice
Kneehigh (UK)
Presented by Arts Projects Australia,
with State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
September 13. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until September 28.
Duration : 1 hours 40 minutes (no interval)

Tour dates : Canberra Theatre, October 2-5; Melbourne:
Athenaeum Theatre, October 9-27; Sydney, The Concourse Theatre, October 31-November 17; Wollongong, IMB Theatre November 20-24; Perth , …

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August 21, 2013

Emotionally illuminating portrait of a family’s grief

Filed under: 2013,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

August 21, 2013
Adelaide Theatre

Babyteeth
by Rita Kalnejais
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre.
August 20. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until September 7.
Duration : 2 hours 20 minutes including interval

“How do you live like you’ve got nothing to lose ? “ that is the question playwright Rita Kalnejais poses as the starting point for Babyteeth, a captivating, sometimes audacious, comic drama about Milla, a terminally ill teenage …

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