All posts tagged "Rob Croser"
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704EntertainmentTheatre 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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341ArtsTheatre 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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377ArtsTheatre 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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380ArtsTheatre Review: Private Peaceful
Private Peaceful, is adapted from the novel by Michael Murpurgo and through reminiscences tells the story of the life of a young WWI soldier, on the last night of his life.
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484ArtsTheatre 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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273ArtsTheatre Review: Cry God For Harry
Drawing on four of Shakespeare's history plays (Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V), director Rob Croser has woven an enthralling single play.
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475ArtsTheatre Review: Private Peaceful
Thomas ‘Tommo’ Peaceful who, although not real, is a representation of the many teenage boys who were court martialled and shot during WWI.
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637ArtsPromise Adelaide presents “Private Peaceful”
Presented by Promise Adelaide and adapted by Simon Reade from Michael Morpurgo’s celebrated novel, Private Peaceful is the moving story of a young soldier killed by firing squad in World War I.
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293ArtsTheatre Review: Before The Party
Based on Somerset Maugham’s short story set just post-war in the golf-club set of Surrey, Rodney Ackland’s play takes a mostly satirical look at the behaviour of this upper-middle class family.
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285LatestTheatre Review: Ross: The Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
The fabled hero of the Arabian conflict is only one side of his story and, told from a military point of view, this play looks at the man inside the myth.
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308ArtsTheatre Review: The Matchmaker
Thornton Wilder's 'The Matchmaker' is an hilarious and witty look at arranged romances.
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326ArtsTheatre 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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457ArtsA Brilliant New Young Hamlet For Adelaide
n 1999, Independent Theatre produced 'Hamlet' with Nick Opolski as the central character. Now, director Rob Croser revisits this famous play, with a young Hamlet.
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280Performing ArtsTheatre Review: Red Velvet
Ira Aldridge was the first black actor to play the role of ‘Othello’ in London during the 1830s. 'Red Velvet' examines this theatrical event with warmth and humour.
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375LatestTheatre Review: The Great Gatsby
With a hit of jazz, booze, foxtrot, glitter, and the odd slice of adultery, any murder can be a work of art when Robert Croser flings it onto the stage.
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324LatestScott 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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222LatestTheatre 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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399LatestTheatre 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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284LatestTheatre 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.
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