Theatre
Index of events:
Australian Theatre of Deaf: Futures / Face Value / Take Off!
E_Move,
ASPIE LIVE! Double Bill
When
the Rain Stops Falling
Ainadamar (Fountain of Tears)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
G
Australia
Australian Theatre of Deaf
Futures / Face Value / Take Off!
Mon & Thurs: Futures deals with the crossroads young people encounter after the HSC. What lies before me? What will I do? How do I choose? Should I travel? Should I work or study? The production challenges student’s perceptions of life’s priorities and reflects the many different ways and options of arriving at a fulfilling life.
Wed & Fri Face Value will highlight the repercussions of stereotyping and give students an appreciation of the importance of respecting the individual. This story is delivered through the eyes of a deaf teenager and his experiences of dealing with hearing people who project prejudice and intimidation towards him.
Sat Take Off! Want to go to Spain for a bullfight? Japan to see sumo wrestling? Ride a dog sled in Iceland? Grab your passport, put on your seatbelt and come with us on a round the world journey you’ll never forget!
| Mon 3 Mar & Thu 6 Mar, 6.30pm (Futures) |
Adult $25, Conc $20, Fringe Benefit $15 Book | VENUE: Fowlers Live, North Terrace, Adelaide   |
| Wed 5 Mar & Fri 7 Mar, 6.30pm (Face Value) | Adult $25, Conc $20, Fringe Benefit $15 Book | |
| Sat 8 Mar, 4pm & 6.30pm (Take Off!) | Adult $25, Conc $20, Fringe Benefit $15 Child $10 Book |
HBG ENDORSED THEATRE
South Australia
E_Move,
ASPIE LIVE! Double Bill
An exciting Double Bill by Adelaide’s only Autistic Theatre Company. E_Move explores autistic emotion through movement and dance. ASPIE LIVE! a Rove-esque talk-show exploring the perspectives of those living with Asperger syndrome. A side-splitting deconstruction of popular culture through ASPIE eyes. Only 4 shows - don’t miss out!! PG
| Wed 5 – Fri 7 Mar, 7pm | Adult $18, Conc $14, Group +6 $10 | VENUE: Theatre 1, The Parks Community
Centre, Cowan St, Angle Park |
| Book at FringeTIX or call 1300 374 643 | ||
HBG ENDORSED THEATRE
World
Premiere
Brink Productions
Australia
by Andrew Bovell
A collaboration with Hossein Valamanesh and Brink Productions
Set against the wonder of the Australian landscape and a dramatically changing climate, When The Rain Stops Falling weaves together four generations of interconnected stories, revealing the patterns of betrayal and abandonment within a family over eighty years, from 1959 to 2039.
Brink Productions joins forces with State Theatre Company of SA to present an epic and powerful piece of storytelling from one of Australia’s greatest writers and one of its most acclaimed visual artists. It tells a new Australian story about the legacy we inherit from our parents… and the legacy we leave behind for our children.
Writer Andrew Bovell
Director Chris Drummond
Designer Hossein Valamanesh
Composer Quentin Grant
Lighting Designer Niklas Pajanti
Executive Producer Kay Jamieson
Cast Paul Blackwell, Michaela Cantwell, Carmel Johnson, Kris
McQuade, Yalin Ozucelik, Anna Lise Phillips, Neil Pigot and Quentin Grant
(musician)
Presented by Brink Productions, State Theatre Company of South Australia and Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. Supported by Maureen Ritchie and the Pratt Foundation.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts’ New Australian Stories Initiative.
| Impaired 4 March, 6.30pm Hearing Impaired 5 March, 1.30pm Previews - 23, 25-27 February 7:30pm Season - 28–29 February, 1, 6–8, 13–15 March, 7.30pm Sunsets 3–5, 10–12 March Matinees 1, 5, 8, 15 March Post Show Discussion 3 March, 6.30pm |
Matinees / Sunsets - Adult $55 Preview / Matinee / Sunset - Friends $50 Preview / Matinee / Sunset - Conc $50 Season - Adult $60 Season - Friends $55 Season - Conc $55 Midweek Matinee - Adult $45 Midweek Matinee - Friends $40 Fringe Benefits to all shows (limited tix available) $25 |
VENUE: Scott Theatre, Kintore Avenue, Adelaide |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
An Opera in Three Images
The Spanish Civil War, 1936: one of the 2,137 civilians in Granada murdered by the Fascists was Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain’s revered poet, musician and playwright who dared to speak of freedom.
Ironically, the spot where he was killed was an ancient well named Ainadamar, the ‘Fountain of Tears’. Lorca’s life inspired many artists, among them the brilliant Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov, who created this critically acclaimed opera in his honour.
In this stirring new staging, directed by the legendary Graeme Murphy, and featuring an international cast including Jessica Rivera and Kelley O’Connor. Golijov’s mesmerising score is saturated with Spanish music tantalisingly mingled with the rival Christian, Jewish and Muslim influences of Iberia. Ainadamar relates the story through Margarita Xirgu, the actress who collaborated with Lorca and tried to persuade him to escape with her to Latin America just before his fatal arrest. At the end of her life, she is about to take the stage to perform one of his plays, and finds herself haunted by his memory.
Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts in association with State Opera of South Australia.
Sung in Spanish with surtitles.
| 29 Feb, 2 & 4 Mar, 7pm | Premium Res $179, Premium Res - Friends $152, A Res $159, A Res - Friends $135, B Res $129, B Res - Friends $110, B Res - Conc $95, C Res $99, C Res - Friends $85 , C Res - Conc $65 |
VENUE: Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, King William Rd, Adelaide  surtitles |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
Australian Premiere
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, Germany
The 2006 Festival saw the Australian debut of Germany’s astonishing Schaubühne – one of the world’s great contemporary theatre companies –with Nora, the visceral deconstruction of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
The company now returns to Australia with director Thomas Ostermeier’s companion production: the great American classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Like Nora, this Tennessee Williams masterpiece features one of theatre’s most compelling dysfunctional couples, Maggie ‘The Cat’ and Brick.
This searing Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is set in a sleek, modernist cage of mendacity woven around money, family, greed, sex and mortality. Truth eludes the grasp of all except, perhaps, the ever-watchful buzzard in the physical cage hovering above – a startling image and metaphor for our times.
With extraordinary performances and the bold stage aesthetic and imaginative conception for which the Schaubühne is renowned, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof enables Adelaide to more deeply explore its relationship with one of the most lauded theatre ensembles in the Festival’s history.
Performed in German with English surtitles. Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts in association with the Adelaide Festival Centre.
| 11, 12, 14 Mar, 8pm; 15 Mar, 2pm & 8.30pm; 16 Mar, 5pm |
A Res $99, A Res - Friends $84, B Res $79, B Res - Friends $67, B Res - Conc $59, Fringe Benefits $25 |
VENUE: Her Majesty's Theatre, 58 Grote St, Adelaide |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
A Dash Arts Production
Presented at Royal Shakespeare Company’s “The Complete Works Festival”
UK/India
by William Shakespeare, directed by Tim Supple
A theatrical event like no other, Tim Supple’s acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is an incredible spectacle combining the skills of actors, dancers, musicians, martial arts experts and street acrobats from across India and Sri Lanka.
Two years in the making, this visually ravishing production, using live music and song, is a playful and sensuous re-imagining of Shakespeare’s best loved comedy.
It caused a sensation in India and a sell-out season at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon followed. Now audiences in Adelaide can experience this breathtaking production performed in English as well as Tamil, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Sanskrit, drawing on theatre traditions both ancient and modern.
A magical, unforgettable “must see”.
Presented with the support of the British Council. Originally commissioned and presented by the British Council
Presented in association with Arts Projects Australia by arrangement with Roger Chapman, Matthew Byam and Act Productions.
| 29 Feb, 1, 7, 8 Mar, 8pm; 1, 8 Mar, 2pm; 2 Mar, 5pm; 4 Mar, 6:30pm (incl pre-performance talk); 5-6 Mar, 7:30pm |
A Res $99, A Res - Friends $84, B Res $79, B Res - Friends $67, B Res - Conc $59, Fringe Benefits $25 |
VENUE: Her Majesty's Theatre, 58 Grote St, Adelaide |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
World Premiere
In the seven years since ADT’s Artistic Director Garry Stewart premiered his celebrated deconstruction of Swan Lake – Birdbrain – he has become one of Australia’s most highly regarded contemporary choreographers.
For the 2008 Festival Futures program, Stewart presents G, a non-linear re-composition of Giselle.
Dislocating and transcending Giselle’s romantic narrative, G converts the dancers from characters into visceral explorations of hysteria, sex, death, loss and metamorphosis.
Fusing the technical prowess and technique of classical ballet with his explosive and enthralling choreography for G, Garry Stewart has further extended the intensely physical dance for which he and ADT have become internationally renowned and revered.
G has been co-commissioned by The Joyce Theater’s Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work (New York), Southbank Centre (London) and Merrigong Theatre Co. at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre (Wollongong)
This performance may contain nudity.
See a promo for ADT's most recent production, Held
| 1 & 2, 5–9, 12–16 Mar, 6pm | Adult $27, Friends $22, Conc $22 | VENUE: ADT Studios, 126 Belair Rd, Hawthorn |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
