All posts tagged "Independent Theatre"
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707ArtsTheatre Review: Journey’s End
Journey’s End is riveting from the very start to the very moving, explosive end
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1.1KArtsTheatre Review: Ghosts
Provoking, emotionally draining and beautifully crafted
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811EntertainmentTheatre Review: Macbeth
Presented by Independent TheatreReviewed 5 August 2021 Macbeth is a five-act tragedy which Independent Theatre have managed to pare down to two hours with no interval. Amazingly, unlike other productions I have seen, nothing seems to be missing, any cuts have been judicious, and the bard’s language has been preserved. Above all the feel of […]
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869EntertainmentTheatre Review: My Three Angels
This charming 1930s play, by Sam and Bella Spewack, lives up to Independent’s standards.
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1.5KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Mrs Warren’s Profession
First performed in London in 1902 almost a decade after it was first written, George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession is back in theatre, this time presented by South Australia’s very own Independent Theatre.
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1.2KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Don Carlos
Set in Spain in 1567-8, at the height of Spain’s colonial power, King Philip the Second struggles to deal with the unrest of his subjects in the Netherlands. His son Don Carlos returns to Spain full of philosophical ideas that were spreading throughout Europe at the time, eager to change the ridged, religious and ritualised country of his birth.
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1.6KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Look Homeward Angel
Set in Altamont, North Carolina in 1916 the play takes place, for the most part, in the Dixieland Boarding House. Thought to be mostly autobiographical Thomas Wolfe’s story, adapted by Keith Frings, is complex and focuses on family relationships.
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906ArtsTheatre Review: Old Wicked Songs
Set in Vienna in the spring of 1986 Old Wicked Songs explores the relationship between a student and teacher. In this case it is a pianist who is forced to study singing with an unknown teacher if he wishes to continue his studies with his chosen professor. The characters have trouble communicating with each other but have a common ground in music.
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833ArtsTheatre Review: Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday was written at the end of WWII but could have been written yesterday: the bombastic, bullying, misogynistic Harry Brock could easily be mistaken for a pre-presidential Donald Trump.
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962ArtsTheatre Review: Brideshead Revisited
Independent Theatre reverently adapts Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in their final production of 2017, exploring youthful passion, Catholic guilt, and the enigmatic Flyte family.
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1.2KArtsTheatre Review: The Matchmaker
Thornton Wilder's 'The Matchmaker' is an hilarious and witty look at arranged romances.
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813ArtsTheatre Review: Hamlet
Any of Shakespeare’s tragedies are a big ask, especially for the lead player, and Hamlet has been played by many big names
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902LatestScott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age Masterpiece On Stage
Independent Theatre will roar into The Space with a new version of F Scott Fitzgerald's iconic romance, 'The Great Gatsby'.
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1.9KLatestInterview: Ben Francis (Playing Jesus In Scotch College’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’)
16 year old Scotch College student, Ben Francis, is about to play, perhaps, the most important musical theatre role of his life – Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar.
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598LatestTheatre Review: Bracken Moor
An effective ghost story set in 1937 when a wealthy mine owner faces the 10th anniversary of the death of his son, and a wife who has decided she should be with the child.
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988LatestTheatre Review: Peter and Alice
A brutally emotive exploration of the real life characters that inspired Peter Pan & Alice in Wonderland, and the unhealthy relationships that emerged around them.
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Theatre Review: “Master Harold” …and the boys
A confronting play about prejudice and cruelty that surfaces through the relationship of a young white boy and the coloured ‘boys’ who work for the family.
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673LatestTheatre Review: Caesar and Cleopatra
George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra arrives on stage thanks to Independent Theatre, full of all the laughs, tragedy and intrigue of it’s past renditions.
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536LatestIndependent Theatre celebrates with political comedy
Independent Theatre's 30th anniversary begins with a timeless political comedy with surprising relevance today...
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743LatestTheatre Review: The Playboy of the Western World
A mysterious young man appears one evening in the Flaherty public house claiming to have just killed and buried his father. His story entrances the residents and begins to attract all manner of obsessive, eccentric locals.
