1991

Adelaide Festival Centre

Murray Bramwell talks to Andrew Bleby about his new job in Adelaide

This year brings  some interesting changes for arts administrator Andrew Bleby. After he has finished his third stint at the centre of Melbourne’s Next Wave Festival in May he will return to his home town Adelaide to take up a three year appointment as Program Director for the Festival Centre Trust.

Andrew first worked as Education Officer with the Festival Centre between 1977 and …

1990

The Red Shed Company’s final production for the 1990 is a new play by Irish writer Frank McGuinness.  Murray Bramwell  talks with director Cath McKinnon and actor Eileen Darley about Cathaginians which opens next Thursday night.

Ask anyone about the Punic Wars and they will tell you that they were waged by Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC. The first war was a power struggle over Sicily, the second starred Hannibal and ended in humiliating defeat while  …

1990

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

Gilles Theatre Company

Warren Neale Theatre

Gilles Plains College of TAFE

August, 1990.

From the moment it appeared in 1949 Death of a Salesman was hailed as a modern classic. Twenty years ago it seemed like a monument to a bygone cult of mammon. Now, forty-one years on, it has much to say again about contemporary confusions between the business of life and the life of business. New Age marketspeak may have …

1990

Adders : A Very Venomous Revue

Sheridan Theatre, May 1990

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

With so many theatres dark at present, the opening of a new one is a signal event. The extensive refurbishment of the Sheridan on McKinnon Parade has brought a highly idiosyncratic intimate theatre space back into use. Decked out in maroon with gilt trim, the Sheridan not only has a well-rigged acting area it has more fibreglass statuary than the Pantheon. Derek Jolly has created …

1989

South Australia

Round Up

Murray Bramwell

A number of Adelaide’s purpose-built companies have been active lately. Junction Theatre Company toured in August and September with their latest production, Wild About Work. Written by Anne Brookman, it traces the working lives of five women- two of them receptionists, one a secretary, the other two in childcare and textile processing. Catherine Fitzgerald made her debut as director with design by Cath Cantlon and music by Sue Ridgeway. Performer Anna Linarello …

1989

Art of the States

South Australia

Review – Murray Bramwell

Road

by Jim Cartwright

Red Shed Company

Wetpack Theatre

Living Arts Centre

July 27-August 9

Adelaide’s Red Shed Company is going from strength to strength. Their latest production, Road by Lancashire- based writer Jim Cartwright is further proof of the company’s versatility and commitment. For one thing it was enterprising of the company to secure a theatrical property of this calibre and to offer it, if not as an …

1989

Road

by Jim Cartwright

Red Shed Company

Adelaide

With their latest production, Road, the Red Shed Company further consolidate their claim as Adelaide’s pre-eminent alternative theatre group. In little more than three years they have produced a creditable range of works – some devised by company members, others, like their current production, intelligent choices from the progressive repertoire.

First performed at the Royal Court in London in 1986, Jim Cartwright’s Road played widely in the provinces and has now …

1989

Murray Bramwell talks with Chris and David Erskine, better known as the Fools Company, about their forthcoming participation in the International Arts Carnival in Hong Kong.

Fools Company have been making friends with young audiences at schools, shopping malls, kids’parties and  community celebrations, as well as conventional theatre venues, for rthe past seven years. They have become well-known both in South Australia and interstate and at the end of this month they will be presenting their show, Galloping Grabbas, …

1989

Murray Bramwell talks with Chris and David Erskine, better known as the Fools Company, about their forthcoming participation in the International Arts Carnival in Hong Kong.

Fools Company have been making friends with young audiences at schools, shopping malls, kids’parties and  community celebrations, as well as conventional theatre venues, for rthe past seven years. They have become well-known both in South Australia and interstate and at the end of this month they will be presenting their show, Galloping Grabbas, …

1989

Murray Bramwell talks with Bill Gillespie, General  Manager of the State Opera of South Australia, about his plans for getting the company back to strength.

While it may be appealing for the leading characters to have true hearts and empty pockets, the same is not true for Opera companies. Little more than a year ago the State Opera of South Australia was in the cactus. The deficit was  more than $500,000, the  subscriber base could only be called precarious …