1990

No Sugar

by Jack Davis

Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney and

Western Australian Theatre Company

Tandanya Theatre, October 1990.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

No Sugar is Jack Davis’ third play. After Kullark in 1978 and The Dreamers four years later, he was commissioned by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1984 to write two plays. That must be some of the best grant money ever spent. The results were Honey Spot, a splendid play for young people which  premiered …

1990

Murray Bramwell talks with playwright Michael Doneman about  his new work for the Magpie Company – Mango Season, which opens at the Odeon Theatre next week.

Michael Doneman describes himself as a recidivist Queenslander. After ten years working in theatre in Sydney he returned to his Brisbane base firstly to teach and then more recently, to establish Contact, a theatre for young people.

Over the past year Doneman, in cahoots with Darwin’s Corrugated Iron Company, the Two to Five …

1990

Capricornia

by Xavier Herbert

Adapted for the stage by Louis Nowra

State Theatre Company

Playhouse, September, 1990

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

In his 1938 saga, Xavier Herbert used Capricornia as the name for Australia’s Top End. But it is not just a fictional geography , it is also a mythic one. In a profusion of storylines the novel tells how the half-caste Nawnim/ Norman Shillingsworth seeks identity not in two worlds but in three. On the brink of Asia, …

1990

Murray Bramwell

Frames, the Media Resource Centre’s Festival of Film and Video, opens on September 7 and runs for the week through to September 14. Screenings wil be held at Hindley Cinema 3 and the Lion Theatre on North Terrace.

With 130 films programmed in just seven days it promises to be not so much a festival as a binge not only for film specialists but for innocent bystanders as well. Frames consists of a selection of international titles, …