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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 ...
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 ...
Journey to the End of the Earth. "Last Cab to Darwin" by Reg Cribb. Pork Chop Productions. Dunstan Playhouse [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-10)
It is not surprising that playwright Reg Cribb saw the story of Max Bell as ready-made for the telling. It has all the elements of a mythic quest with a sturdy,
self-deprecating hero meeting a host of different characters ...
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 ...
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 ...