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February 21, 2014

Carnival transforms the city and there are plenty of Fringe benefits

Filed under: 2014,Archive,Fringe

Adelaide Fringe 2014
February 14 – March 16

The voluminous Adelaide Fringe opened last Friday. Defying recent torrential rain large crowds lined the streets for the night parade of performers and floats including a luminous disco cuttlefish. With a record 978 shows, including 473 Australian premieres, and box office at record levels, this vast, uncurated festival, second only to the Edinburgh extravaganza, transforms the Adelaide CBD into carnival.

New this year is the raffishly named Royal Croquet Club celebrating the …

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February 19, 2014

Festival Trifecta

Filed under: 2014,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Murray Bramwell talks with Rosemary Myers about Windmill Theatre’s program of new work and revivals in the Adelaide Festival.

If you look under “Our Claims to Fame’ on Adelaide’s Windmill Theatre’s website there is a list of awards and nominations the company has received over the past five years – and it is astonishing. Last year alone, for their hit show School Dance, there were six Helpmann nominations (including two winners –Best Presentation for Children and Best Supporting Actor …

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January 01, 2014

The Best of 2013

Filed under: 2013,2014,Archive

Live performances have their seasons and then are gone : sometimes they remain vivid, but often, excellent productions and outstanding performances drift into imperfect recollection and hearsay. I hope this website, for all its sometimes unwelcome opinions, is a useful record of some of the notable activity in Adelaide this year.

I want to thank all the companies and creatives who have invited me to performances in 2013 and to acknowledge your continuing commitment and achievement.

Looking back on my …

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December 01, 2013

Stories from Nearby

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Books

Two Girls in a Boat
by Emma Martin
Victoria University Press
ISBN 978-0- 86473-893-6
RRP. $ 35.00. 197 pp.

Tough
by Amy Head
Victoria University Press
ISBN 978-0-86473-698-7
RRP: $ 28.00. 79 pp.

Tales from the Netherworld
by Jo Randerson
Steele Roberts Aotearoa
ISBN 978-1-877577-88-8
RRP. $. ??? 115 pp.

Murray Bramwell

One of the many pleasures of reading collections of short stories is the variety of ways in which a writer can explore the local – things, places and …

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November 13, 2013

Bitterly funny refuge in financial dependency

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Australian Texts,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Adelaide Theatre

Maggie Stone
by Caleb Lewis
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre.
November 12. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until November 30 .
Duration : 100 minutes, no interval.

It was Polonius, in Hamlet who said : “Neither a borrower or a lender be/ For loan oft loses both itself and friend.” He’s right, but that’s not how we live in the world. In his astutely incisive, often bitterly funny, new …

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October 16, 2013

When truth and faith collide, twice

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Australian Texts,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Adelaide Theatre

Vere (Faith)
by John Doyle
State Theatre Company
And Sydney theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.
October 16. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until November 2 .
Duration : 2 hours 30 minutes including interval

Vere is the name of the central character in John Doyle’s engaging new play about an Australian physicist on the brink of a momentous discovery. In its Slavic origins, Vere means faith, but in Latin it …

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September 15, 2013

Coward’s ironies lost in the action

Filed under: 2013,Archive,International,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Brief Encounter
by Noel Coward
Adapted and directed by Emma Rice
Kneehigh (UK)
Presented by Arts Projects Australia,
with State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
September 13. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until September 28.
Duration : 1 hours 40 minutes (no interval)

Tour dates : Canberra Theatre, October 2-5; Melbourne:
Athenaeum Theatre, October 9-27; Sydney, The Concourse Theatre, October 31-November 17; Wollongong, IMB Theatre November 20-24; Perth , …

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August 21, 2013

Emotionally illuminating portrait of a family’s grief

Filed under: 2013,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

August 21, 2013
Adelaide Theatre

Babyteeth
by Rita Kalnejais
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre.
August 20. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until September 7.
Duration : 2 hours 20 minutes including interval

“How do you live like you’ve got nothing to lose ? “ that is the question playwright Rita Kalnejais poses as the starting point for Babyteeth, a captivating, sometimes audacious, comic drama about Milla, a terminally ill teenage …

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July 06, 2013

Wolf lights up the house with poetry

Filed under: 2013,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Adelaide
Theatre

Big Bad Wolf
by Matthew Whittet
Windmill Theatre
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
July 6. Duration 50 minutes, no interval
Tickets: $15 – $20. Family rate $ 75 (2 adults, 2 children)
Bookings BASS 131 246 or bass.net.au
Until July 13.

The Big Bad Wolf has quite a case to answer. Just ask the Three Little Pigs or, if you can find her, the grandmother of Little Red Riding Hood. However, according to Windmill Theatre’s latest production (written …

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July 02, 2013

Double the fun with the Bard

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Interstate,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Adelaide Theatre

The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
State Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.
July 2. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until July 14.

Shakespeare’s comedies are full of tricks, dupes and misunderstandings. His characters frequently use disguise, subterfuge and illusion to create confusion. Appearances are altered to remedy injustice, take revenge and, often, to bring the misguided and the wrongheaded to their senses. But only his first …

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