Three Dog Night
by Peter Goldsworthy
Adapted by Petra Kalive
Two Blue Cherries
Space Theatre

31 March

Metro Street
by Matthew Robinson
State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse

April 7

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

We have seen Peter Goldsworthy’s work on stage in brisk succession recently. First, with his own adaptation of Maestro (in collaboration with Anna Goldsworthy) and now with Melbourne company, Two Blue Cherries’ version of Three Dog Night. As the more than quarter of a million readers …

2007

LyreBird : Tales of Helpmann

by Tyler Coppin

State Theatre Company

Of South Australia

Space Theatre

Adelaide Festival Centre

October 16. Until November 3.

Tickets $17 – $55.  Bookings BASS 131 246

It was in 1964, in The Display, the first fully home-grown work by the Australian Ballet, that choreographer Robert Helpmann introduced the dance of the lyrebird as a metaphor for Australian male attitudes. Now, in a welcome return, nine years after it premiered at the 1998 …

Two
by Jim Cartwright

Wheatsheaf Hotel
12 October, 2006

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Anyone who remembers Road, given a memorable ride by Adelaide’s Red Shed Company in its heyday, will be alert to the name Jim Cartwright. Just as Road was like a profane and poetic underclass Milk Wood, so Two, directed by Toni Main and featuring a cast of newly emerging local actors, is also based around a motley collection of desperate characters struggling with adversity, sometimes of their …

Away
by Michael Gow

Queensland Theatre Company
and Griffin Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
Until September 23, 2006

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

There can be few Australian plays as mercurial as Away. Written in the mid-Eighties, but set in the late Sixties, it focuses on three families going “away” for their summer holidays. It is full of affectionate retro-detail of Australian beach culture, but its central themes are of loss and death and the struggle to accept the inevitable and irrevocable. …