Fringe Favourites. "Adelaide Fringe Festival" Fringe Theatre. [preview]
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Date
2004-02
Authors
Bramwell, Murray Ross
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Adelaide Review'
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Abstract
There are the classics - beginning with David Malikoff’s performance of the Anglo-Saxon monster epic "Beowulf and Midsummer Night’s Dream Reloaded" from Scrambled Prince at the Mercury Cinema. Local company, Rough Magic is staging Ibsen’s "Ghosts at the Holden Street Theatres", directed by Alice Teasdale and featuring Michael Baldwin and Carl Nilsson-Polias.
Twentieth century Absurdist works are well represented - "Waiting for Godot" from Fourdoors theatre, "The Caretaker" by Harold Pinter from Brink Productions - excellent contributors in past Fringe line-ups also - and Ionesco’s "The Lesson" will be conducted on the Museum Lawns.
The international contingent again includes Seattle’s Theatre Simple with "Notes From Underground" based on the text by Dostoesvky, other works from this company include "The Big Time" and "Parrot Fever". "The Blue Orphan" from Canada’s Catalyst Theatre looks intriguing, and for quality children’s theatre, "Smashed Eggs" written by Phil Porter and presented by Sulis Productions is of interest.
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Festivals, Festival Reviews, Performing Arts
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Bramwell, Murray 2004. Fringe Benefits. Preview of the "Adelaide Fringe Festival" Fringe Theatre.'The Adelaide Review', no.245, February, 20.