by Michael Coghlan | Aug 15, 2022 | Reviews, Theatre
[THEATRE ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ AUS] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Tue 9 Aug. Pat’s been teaching for 35 years and has just lost her only friend on the staff of Water Vale Primary School. She’s as jaded as the rundown staffroom that greets her on her return...
by Michael Coghlan | Sep 9, 2020 | Reviews, Theatre
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Tue 8 Sep, 2020. Prompt and friendly COVID marshals ushered us into the new Her Majesty’s Theatre and quietly suggested where we might wait for show time. I wanted to zip around the new foyers and see some of the new layout but the tentative...
by Nikki Fort | Mar 9, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
State Opera Studio, Tue 8 Mar The huge black space that is the State Opera studio gives a looming sense of the vastness that can be found in country Australia. David Lampard’s striking set, with layers of civilization peeling off a remote house to reveal the fragile...
by Rosie van Heerde | Jul 29, 2015 | Reviews, Theatre
Dunstan Playhouse, Tue 28 Jul Harold Pinter’s 1978 play, Betrayal,is much loved by Pinter fans and is State Theatre Company’s latest production. A semi-autobiographical account of the Nobel prize-winning playwright’s own infidelity, the play centres on the broken...
by David Robinson | Jul 10, 2015 | Interviews, Theatre
by David Robinson. State Theatre Company of SA is bringing Betrayal, Harold Pinter’s “ruthless exploration of the complexity of the human heart”, to the Dunstan Playhouse during July and August. Betrayal is set in 1977. Emma is married to Robert. But for seven years,...