Adumbrations: first time out 2010
This was a worthwhile and interesting performance, allowing new writers a chance to have their work presented by an established company under the direction of very experienced people.
This was a worthwhile and interesting performance, allowing new writers a chance to have their work presented by an established company under the direction of very experienced people.
Brink’s world premiere of Sydney writer, Matthew Whittet’s, latest play got off to a fine start, with director, Chris Drummond’s, usual firm hand, clear vision and attention to detail in evidence.
The Festival has quickly grown in stature, becoming an important part of the annual music scene in Adelaide, this year going to air nationally on ABC Classic FM.
This work is an extended anti-drug and alcohol message, presented by means of examining a short space of time after three friends arrive home drunk.
Soprano, Gisele Blanchard, is currently visiting her home town and, while here, she presented a concert of operatic highlights.
The Elder Conservatorium of Music’s School of Jazz Studies has been producing some fine musicians over the years and this years awards were presented to another small group of highly talented emerging performers.
This was a remarkable evening and it contained so much that it really deserves to be seen more than once to absorb all of the intricacies and subtleties.
Joh Hartog, has hit on a winning script at a time near the end of a dreary winter when we could all use a good laugh, and there are plenty to be had here.
Henrik Ibsen wrote this play (En folkefiendes, 1882) as a protest against the reaction to his play, Ghosts, which challenged the hypocrisy of 19th Century morality.
William Shakespeare’s “star-cross’d lovers” are getting another airing, this time under the direction of Geordie Brookman for State Theatre in his own adaptation of the script, written in association with Nicki Bloom.