April 14 , 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

The City
by Martin Crimp
nowyesnow
The Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide
April 13. Tickets $ 17 – $ 25
Bookings : 8277 0505,  www.bakehousetheatre.com
Until April 28.

“Why is it“, asks one of the characters in Martin Crimp’s 2008 play The City, “that our hopes make us so sad ?” It is one of the very few direct comments anyone makes in this captivating, eighty minute maze of disconnected details, emotions, lacunae and cul-de-sacs.…

School Dance
By Matthew Whittet
Windmill Theatre
in association with Adelaide Festival
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre .
March 6. Tickets : $ 20 – $30
Bookings: BASS 131 246, adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 10.

The school dance is a big deal – and an ordeal – if you are not numbered among the anointed popular. Windmill’s captivating new work not only explores the status anxiety of teenagers, it takes them through a hole in the fabric of time to make …

February 29, 2012
Adelaide Festival

Malmo
Torque Show
Presented by Vitalstatistix Theatre Company
in association with Adelaide Festival
Waterside, Port Adelaide.
February 28. Tickets : $ 25 – $35
Bookings: BASS 131 246, adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 4.

“This is not a house, it’s a machine for living” the bright young couple exults, “It is a 3D mirror of who you are.” Malmo, a dance theatre work devised by performers Vincent Crowley and Ingrid Weisfelt, along with director Ross Ganf, takes …

November 21 , 2011
Feast Festival
Adelaide
Theatre

The Dead Ones
by Margie Fischer
Vitalstatistix Theatre Company
Higher Ground, Light Square, Adelaide.
November 20 . Tickets $15- $20
Bookings : Ph.08 84630684
Until November 26.

What are memories when there is no one left to share them ? What are the traces of a family when there is no-one to identify the people in the photograph or recognize a favourite book or chair ? In The Dead Ones , theatre …

September 23, 2011
Adelaide Theatre
BRIEF

That Face
By Polly Stenham
five.point.one
Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide
September 22. Wednesday to Saturday until October 8.
Tickets: $12 – $25. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com
Or by phone on (08) 8227 0505.

UK playwright Polly Stenham was just nineteen when That Face premiered at London’s Royal Court in 2007 and it was a startling debut. Bright young Adelaide independents five.point.one have shown that its grim, sometimes macabrely comic take on middle class neglect …