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A Last Hurrah. "Nixon's Nixon" by Russell Lees. P&S Productions in association with Arts Projects Australia. Dunstan Playhouse [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-03)Playwright Russell Lees is at pains to point out that Nixon’s Nixon is a fiction, a speculation of what might have transpired in a lengthy meeting between the President and his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger on the ... -
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 ... -
Looking for Life's Treasure. "Moonfleet" adapted by Catherine Zimdahl. Windmill Peforming Arts and Mainstreet Theatre Company [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-02)Windmill Performing Arts has a three year arrangement with the Mt Gambier based Mainstreet Theatre Company and, by the look of their first joint venture, the combination is going to be a happy one. Mainstreet director ... -
Marceau Still on Top As Mime Goes By. Marcel Marceau [review]
(The Australian, 2003-11-03)Marcel Marceau is a frail figure on stage now and, of course, has much less of the vitality of his heyday. But alone in the spotlight with his dexterity and pierrot sentimentality, he captivates an attentive and fond ... -
Masked Mayhem on the Menu. 'Ristorante Immortale' by Floz Productions [review]
(The Australian, 2003-02-24)The Ristorante Immortale is unlikely to get a listing in the Michelin Guide, or anywhere else for that matter. It has zany waiters, an accordion wielding cook, an endlessly hopeful owner and, it would seem, no customers ... -
Mind Games. "Myth, Propoganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America" by Stephen Sewell. State Theatre Company and Playbox [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-08)A new play by Stephen Sewell is always an event. And more often than not, his plays are heralded by marvellous titles. There is a cadence to them - "The Blind Giant is Dancing", "Dreams in an Empty City", "The Father We ... -
Modern Message in Miller Classic. 'The Crucible' by Arthur Miller. State Theatre Company of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2003-03-18)When, a year ago, Rosalba Clemente listed Arthur Miller’s The Crucible for inclusion in the 2003 State Theatre Company season, she cannot have imagined it would speak so vividly in such difficult times as these. Miller’s ... -
Monarch Unmasked Through Diaries. 'An Evening With Queen Victoria' by Prunella Scales [review]
(The Australian, 2004-11-05)With only simple period decor and a touch of electric gaslight, the success of this Evening rests with the intelligence and nuance of Prunella Scales’ convincing presentation, restless in adolescence, smitten in marriage, ... -
Montana of the Mind. "A Lie of the Mind" by Sam Shepherd. Brink Productions [review]
(The Australian, 2001-11-30)Brink have brought us a strong production -all three hours of it. Shepard’s play is a saga of individuals struggling to understand themselves in the mirror of those they have spent their lives with. They are also searching ... -
More Weight.'The Crucible' by Arthur Miller. State Theatre Company with Urban Myth Theatre Company. [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-04)The Crucible was first performed fifty years ago and repeatedly since, because it not only describes the exponential insanity of the McCarthy period but those numerous occasions before and since when a community is goaded ... -
Moving, But No Forward Address. "Night Letters" by Susan Rogers. State Theatre Company of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2004-03-04)This production has been a long time in the making and numerous work-shops and revisions have coarsened the intimacy and the filigree elements of Dessaix’s work. They have been put through a megaphone - as the stage is apt ... -
A New Director and A New Direction. "Adam Cook, State Theatre Company's Artistic Director for 2005, Removes the Veil".
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-11-12)It is midday on a Friday and the crowd is gathered in the Dunstan Playhouse for the launch of the State Theatre Company’s 2005 season. There’s the usual mix of subscribers, sponsors, arts heavies and media, as well as ... -
A Night of Crime and Punishment. "Shakespeare's Villains" by Steven Berkoff. Festival Theatre [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2005-03-04)In the polite world of English theatre Steven Berkoff has always been the bad boy, and, even at sixty eight, he is still a bit of a lad. We owe much to him - for the turbulent rough magic of "East", for the curdled wit of ... -
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, ... -
Offering Singular Perspectives. "Laughing Wild" by Christopher Durang and "The Getaway Bus" by Ingle Knight. Bakehouse Theatre [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-09)After a late scratching from Series Three of Bakehouse Theatre’s "Festival of One", comes the welcome addition of "Laughing Wild", a thirty minute monologue from American writer Christopher Durang. Taking its title from ... -
Picture Book Quality. "PoM pOm" by Pamela Allen. Patch Theatre [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2000-09)It is often said that young people deserve the best theatre. And yet, just as often, they end up with the very opposite. Not only have we seen a reduction in the amount of work on offer in all age ranges in the past five ... -
A Play in Inverted Commas. "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare. State Theatre South Australia [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2000-12)There is nothing else in all of Shakespeare that has caused the sort of qualms that "The Taming of the Shrew" has over the past twenty years or so. The subduing of the fiery Katherina by her mocking suitor Petruchio and ... -
Pleasure In Company of Women. "Boston Marriage" by David Mamet. State Theatre Company of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2004-10-21)In the late nineteenth century when two women lived together, it was known as a Boston marriage - reflecting both the feminist sophistication of the arrangement and its prevalence in that American city. Boston Marriage is ... -
Power Games. "Blue Remembered Hills" by Dennis Potter. Brink Productions. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2000-09)In this Brink Productions version, director John O’ Hare has shown that the play works every bit as well on stage as it does in the Forest of Dean . Co-designed by O’Hare and Justin Pennington the set has a stylised mound ... -
The Power of Two Funny Men. "The Pleasure of Their Company" by Shaun Micallef and Glynn Nicholas. The Arts Theatre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-04-01)There have been plenty of comedy double acts in recent times - HG and Roy, John Clarke and Bryan Dawe, Mick Molloy and Tony Martin, to name just a few. But, on first glance, Glynn Nicholas and Shaun Micallef seem an unlikely ...