Browsing Murray Bramwell by Title
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Three Arts Projects. "3 Dark Tales". Theatre O, "Kayassine". Les Arts Sauts and "Hopeless Games". fabrik Potsdam & DO Theatre [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2002-03)Theatre O from the UK is a hypermobile company which uses the signature performance techniques of Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Their Edinburgh Festival hit, "3 Dark Tales" is one of three international productions being ... -
Triptych."Art" by Yasmina Reza. State Theatre Company. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-08)Art is a play about friendship and the ways in which we are socially constructed by our friends and vulnerable to their disapproval. The play is about three men. Serge has bought a painting for 200,000 francs and it is ... -
The Tyranny of Distance. "In the Time of Distance". Parallelo [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-10)The rehearsal room for Parallelo’s "Distance Project" has not been in a building but on a website. For several years the company - previously known as Doppio Teatro - has, through the auspices of artistic director, Teresa ... -
Untiring Courage. "Weary" by Alan Hopgood. Dunstan Playhouse [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-04-29)Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop waited more than forty years before he turned the scattered notes of his wartime diaries into publishable form. Recorded in dreadful circumstances while he was a prisoner of the Japanese, first ... -
Urbane Comedy One Minute. 'Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)' by Ann-Marie MacDonald. State Theatre Company. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-10-15)State Theatre director Kim Durban brings together a pleasing cast led by Sally Cooper as the awkward but valiant Constance and Ksenja Logos, amusing as the frazzled fourteen year old Juliet. Margot Fenley is a very forthright ... -
Victim of Digressions. "Frozen" by Bryony Lavery. State Theatre Company of South Australia. Space Theatre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-07-22)Whenever we wonder about the nature of human nature we invariably turn to criminal behaviour, especially that of predatory serial killers, for speculation and explanation. Are such crimes, especially against children, proof ... -
Voices in an Awkward Pitch. "Projections 1" by Peter Finlay, "Blowing It" by Stephen Papps and Stephen Sinclair, and "Festival of One" Bakehouse Theatre. [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-08)The Festival of One monodrama series has been a fixture at the Bakehouse for a number of years now. Previously, it ran in November but artistic director, Peter Green has, this year, divided it into three seasons in May, ... -
War Games. "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf" by Edward Albee. State Theatre Company. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-10)Edward Albee’s play has a larger perspective than just the lives of his four floundering characters, it is a metaphor for the paralysis and narcissism of the American middle class and its failure to challenge an emerging ... -
Watch Me, Watch Me …Vanish. "4:48 Psychosis" by Sarah Kane. Brink Productions in association with Budgie Lung Theatre Queen’s Theatre. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-11-12)Sarah Kane didn’t write prefaces for her plays. She said that if they were any good they would stand alone. But in her case it was never going to be that simple. When, in 1998, she committed suicide at the age of 28, she ... -
Who's Afraid of Edward Albee's Foresight? 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' by Edward Albee. State Theatre Company [review]
(The Australian, 2003-09-04)Poor Virginia Woolf. She is almost as famous for belonging in the quirky title of Edward Albee’s play as she is for To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway . A whole generation has wondered how she could be so scary, when, in ... -
Wit. 'Wit' by Margaret Edson. Bluetongue Theatre [review]
(The Australian, 2001-07-23)Often plays which use extensive literary sources end up being precious, or exercises in self-regarding cleverness. Margaret Edson’s Wit is not one of those. In its intelligence, subtlety and artful structure it also enables ... -
Womadelaide Previewed. Womadelaide 2001 [preview]
(The Adelaide Review, 2001-02)It is February and the “off-year” for the Adelaide Festival, so it must be time for Womadelaide. This is the sixth incarnation -including the Pimba train ride and the McLaren Vale boutique version in 1998 - and expectation ... -
World Peace. Womadelaide 2003 [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-04)Womadelaide is not just a highly successful musical occasion, it is a key fixture in the Adelaide cultural calendar. That is made clear enough at the afternoon press call before the Friday night opening. All the major ... -
The World To Come. Womadelaide 2003 [preview]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-02)Womadelaide celebrates ten years next month and it is now a leading fixture on the city’s cultural calendar. In 2004 Womadelaide comes full circle. Established in 1992 for Rob Brookman’s Adelaide Festival of that year, ... -
A World Without Warmth. 'The Snow Queen' by Hans Christian Anderson. Windmill Performing Arts and Sydney Theatre Company [review]
(The Australian, 2003-09-29)The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson is a children’s story but it is a mighty complicated one to stage. For one thing, it is not a single story but a series of episodes - involving quests and danger, magical situations ... -
You Can (Still) Get Anything You Want …. Arlo Guthrie. Norwood Concert Hall. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-07)There is something irrepressibly good-natured about Arlo Guthrie and he’s been like that for forty years. Opening with "Chilling of the Evening", one of his earliest folk rock songs, he follows with a string band ditty ...