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June 01, 1989

Fiscal Violence

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Speed-The-Plow
by David Mamet
State Theatre Company
Space

David Mamet wrote his first plays when he was teaching acting. Tired of trying to find new exercises for students, he began making up his own. An essential part of building a character as Stanislavski will tell you, is ‘ determining what he or she wants from others in the play ‘ and David Mamet constructs intricate, subtle and disturbing theatre around these questions.

Mamet has written more than twenty plays as …

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Whose Beach is it Anyway?

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Festival,Interstate,Theatre

Whose Beach is it Anyway?
by Greg McCart
Kite Theatre Company, Queensland
Directed by Sue Rider
Design: Paul Edwards, Composer: Barry Ferrier
Cast: Tim Mullooly, Susi French, Lil Kelman, Elaine Cusick

For their contribution to Come Out 89, the Kite Theatre Company flew in from Brisbane to present a show for littlies entitled Whose Beach is it Anyway? Karah, a young suburban kid, comes across a hidden beach inhabited only by seagulls, a turtle, a crab and a brown booby …

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Interpreting the New Dreaming

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Festival,International,Theatre

Interpreting the New Dreaming
Come Out 89 Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Now that the eighth biennial Come Out Festival has come and gone there is time to reflect on what is a quite remarkable youth arts festival. For 16 years Adelaide has hosted a gathering of performers, participants and audiences which has become such a familiar part of the cultural landscape that it is almost taken for granted.

For that reason any commentary on Come Out should begin by praising …

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Couple of Kids

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

Couple of Kids
by Julianne O’Brien
Magpie Theatre Company.
May 1989.

Directed by Angela Chaplin

  • Design: Kathryn Sproul
  • Lighting: Peter Taylor
  • Composer: Andree Greenwell
  • Choreographer: Helen Herbertson
  • Cast: Eileen Darley, Nic Hurcombe, Claudia La Rose,

Richard Margetson, Caroline Mignone, Stephen Mitchell,
Brett Wood, Peter Wood.

Magpie’s Angela Chaplin has taken on an ambitious task with her production of Julianne O’Brien’s Couple of Kids. Staged in a former church at Site 55, Port Road Hindmarsh, with an imaginative design by …

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May 24, 1989

Winning Hearts and Minds

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

1989

Director Rose Clemente and members of the cast talk with Murray Bramwell about The Heartbreak Kid currently playing at Theatre 62.

It was after presenting Witchplay  for the Fringe season at the Lion Theatre last year that Adelaide actors Rose Clemente and Christina Totos decided to plan further ventures. Witchplay, a solo piece, had been performed by Rose and directed by Christina. Now, for The Heartbreak Kid, the roles are reversed. Along with local performers, Ian Dixon, Maurie Annese …

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May 01, 1989

Staging the Dreams

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

The 1989 Come Out festival has ended and yet again this remarkable event has focused activities in all areas of youth arts. The more than fifty events involving .hundreds of performers and audiences of many thousands are only part of a chain reaction of activities generated in schools and communities in the metropolitan area and throughout the state.

In fifteen years Come Out has expanded and consolidated such that it is almost taken for granted locally. It is worth saying …

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Catch a Falling Spy

Filed under: Archive,Comedy,International

James Bond
Cliffhanger
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre.

Britain’s Cliffhanger Theatre Company’s ]ames Bond may not be everybody’s idea of a universal export but will tickle those who like their comedy somewhere between the Goodies and the Spanish Inquisition. Although, unlike the more pugnacious forms of manic English humour, James Bond is low-key, whimsical and gets curiouser and curiouser.

The four Cliffhangers give Ian Fleming’s imperturbable Bond a right old filleting. Pete McCarthy has the familiar tux and grooming but …

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April 01, 1989

Memorable

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

Ricordi
Doppio Teatro
Lion Theatre

As their name suggests, Doppio Teatro (Dual Theatre) is a bilingual theatre company with a single-minded commitment to the promotion and celebration of ltalo-Australian culture. Since its inception in 1983, Doppio has staged productions for the Festival Fringe, Piccolo Spoleto and Come Out as well as schools and Italian clubs in the metropolitan. area and regional centres.

Under the guidance of artistic directors, Christopher Bell and Teresa Crea, Doppio Teatro has, with productions such as …

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Breakthrough?

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Interviews,Theatre

“We have retrieved a lot of necessary ground but nobody wants to know about that”

Leigh Warren, Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre
interviewed by Murray Bramwell

FUNDING cuts continue to loom for most performing companies in much the same way that Birnam Wood moved on Dunsinane, although, at the moment it seems to be the dance companies who are particularly vulnerable. Recently, Sydney’s Once Extra Company lost funds altogether while elsewhere, artistic differences are resulting in resignations and uncertainty. …

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March 01, 1989

Age-old Questions

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

A Month Of Sundays
by Bob Larbey
State Theatre Company
Playhouse

After two very successful stints in Sydney, the Northside Theatre production of A Month of Sundays is now opening the card for the State Theatre Company’s 1989 season. It is an astute choice because the play is so reassuringly conventional that it will please a wide audience but it still has substance enough for those who don’t need everything on the stage to have whiskers and a tail.

Playwright …

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