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Survivor - or Big Brother? "Robinson Crusoe" adapted by Gillian Rubinstein. Windmill Productions and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-08)
Windmill Productions have completed their first year of operation and there is much to celebrate. In the capable hands of Creative Producer Cate Fowler, Windmill
is firmly in the first rank of companies which specialise ...
Last Rights. "The Last Acre" by Sean Riley. Oddbodies Theatre Company [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-03)
We know, and absolutely don’t want to know, how a single action, a single impulse can change everything. This is what we mean by a life-or-death moment, that split second, as we call it, when something irrevocable occurs ...
Combat Zone. "Third World Blues" by David Williamson. State Theatre Company [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-03)
For an artist to return to a finished work and then revise it, is rarely a simple matter. So when, in 1997, David Williamson went back to his 1972 script "Jugglers Three" and reworked it, he again raised interesting questions ...
Private Lives. "Closer" by Patrick Marber. State Theatre. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 1999-09)
In Closer there are few pipes and timbrels but there's plenty of mad pursuit. Everybody gets to lead and then to follow. Everybody gets a chance to win and everybody loses. Dan, living with Alice, now wants Anna who takes ...
Offering Double the Amount of Fun. "The Comedy of Errors" by William Shakespeare. The Bell Shakespeare Company. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-10-15)
In director John Bell’s fast-paced farce, Ephesus is a Turkish town with (in Jennie Tate’s lively design) splodgy whitewashed walls, market stalls and sinister types in Commedia half-masks. The fez is the chapeau of choice, ...
Revelation. "Bare" by Toa Fraser. Madeleine Sami and Ian Hughes. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2000-12)
Bare is an odd title for a stage work as richly arrayed as this. It is certainly unadorned - a two hander for actors who perform with minimal lighting and two chairs. But its language, narrative complexity and emotional ...
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 ...
Innocence and Squalor. "The Pitchfork Disney" by Philip Ridley. 4 Bux Progressive Arts [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-12)
"The Pitchfork Disney" first played in 1990 and heralded a wave of what might be called punk theatre. In works such as "Shopping and Fucking" and "Disco Pigs" - both of which have performed in Adelaide - and films such as ...
Suffering from Collateral Damage. 'Euripides’ Trojan Women' adapted by Rosalba Clement and Dawn Langman. State Theatre Company. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-11-26)
In The Trojan Women the text is on suffering - for
women, children, even, for the souls of the victors. Its subject is the death
that can be worse than death - occupation and enslavement.
In her final project as Artistic ...
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 ...