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Crimes and Misdemeanours. "Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love" by Brad Fraser State Theatre. "Speaking in Tongues" by Andrew Bovell. Griffin Theatre Company. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 1998-10)Love and Human Remains, as the play was retitled in Fraser's own film adaptation, is a canny blend of soapie, crime thriller and young singles sitcom. In State Theatre's mainstage version, director Rosalba Clemente and ... -
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 ... -
Déjà Vu. "Play with Repeats" by Martin Crimp. Balcony Theatre [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2000-09)"Play With Repeats" is a fractured narrative which, as its title suggests, is a series of repetitions, echoes, variations on a theme, and might-have-beens. Anthony Steadman is a man turning forty. He works as a technician ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Running on Empty. "Sweet Road" by Debra Oswald. State Theatre South Australia and Playbox [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2000-10)Life, as everyone from your aromatherapist to your personal trainer will tell you, is a journey. We are all out there, pounding away on the four lane black top. That is, when we are not cruising the information superhighway ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A House Among the Stars. "House Among the Stars" by Michael Tremblay. State Theatre Company of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2001-05-04)State Theatre has succeeded with a work which, despite its soft edges and easy resolutions, has gentle charm and poetic accomplishment. This production has given us a memorable glimpse, the first on an Australian mainstage, ... -
Killer Joe. "Killer Joe" by Tracey Letts. Brink Productions and State Theatre Company [review]
(The Australian, 2001-06-15)They are not a pleasant bunch in Mr Tracy Letts’s play but Brink’s version, with production support from State Theatre, takes us from Jerry Springer stereotype to a morality drama that is comic, shocking - and surprisingly ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Holy Day. "Holy Day" by Andrew Bovell. State Theatre Company of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2001-08-24)Holy Day is a relentless, and gripping, account of events from first contact which, in recent national political debate, have often been systematically repudiated and belittled. In this production the State Theatre Company ... -
Jennifer in Security. "Jennifer in Security" by Noelle Janaczewska. Vitalstatistix Women's Theatre [review]
(The Australian, 2001-08-27)Noelle Janaczewska’s monologue, commissioned by Vitalstatistix National Women’s Theatre, is a modest cameo, a small, well-made piece rather like the porcelain that Jennifer collects and admires. But, sometimes, less is ... -
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 ... -
Buried Lives. "A Lie of the Mind" by Sam Shepard. Brink Productions [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-12)The second and final Brink production for the year is also an American play. Sam Shepard’s "A Lie of the Mind" makes an interesting pair with the company’s co-production with State Theatre back in June. That was "Killer ... -
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 ... -
Devilish Toll of Nuclear Testing. "The Career Highlights of Mamu" by Trevor Jamieson and Scott Rankin. Black Swan Theatre Company [review]
(The Australian, 2002-03-04)This production is brimming with material and the participants create a memorable living history with candour and great dignity. Trevor Jamieson has imagined a terrific project. It is astutely anti-theatrical and a marvellous ... -
Subverted Melodrama. "My Life, My Love" by Pat Rix. Tutti Ensemble Holdfast Choir, State Theatre Company of South Australia and State Opera [review]
(The Australian, 2002-03-08)My Life, My Love is a melodramatic tale that would make even Dickens blush but, lifted by the enthusiasm of the performers, it subverts much of its own earnestness.