Events - Theatre
White
31 January 2012 - 11 February 2012
Imaginative magical moving Young children and their families are invited into the beautifully strange world of White. It’s the story of two friends who look after bird houses and make sure the eggs stay safe. We watch,we help. The world is bright,ordered and white. But high up in the trees, all is not white. Colour appears. First red... then yellow...then...
Dickens' Women
15 February 2012 - 19 February 2012
London's West End smash hit Following sell-out performances in 2007, BAFTA®-award winning actress Miriam Margolyes returns to Australia for an encore national tour of her one-woman tour-de-force, Dickens' Women. Bringing to life twenty-three of Charles Dickens' most affecting and colourful female (and male!) characters,...
Raoul
01 March 2012 - 06 March 2012
James Thiérrée - La Compagnie du Hanneton Australian Premiere Season Umbrellas become jellyfish, clothes take on a mind of their own, ghost-like elephants wander and candles won't snuff in James Thiérrée's world of endless invention. One of Europe's most versatile artists, the acrobat, clown, poet and magician...
School Dance
03 March 2012 - 10 March 2012
Windmill Theatre and Adelaide Festival Previews: 3 March 2012 Season: 6 - 10 March 2012 This is a story of three teenage boys. They're going to the school dance. They're on a mission. But they are losers. These are the awkward kids. The invisible teens. Fuelled by a diet of raging hormones and...
MASS by Leonard Bernstein
09 March 2012 - 10 March 2012
There’s big – and then there’s Bernstein. From West Side Story to Candide, celebrated classical composer Leonard Bernstein knew how to make a big song and dance. Bernstein regarded Mass, a kaleidoscopic mix of music, dance and theatre featuring a symphony orchestra, a rock band, a choir and opera singers as his defining achievement. Commissioned for the opening of the...
Bloodland
08 March 2012 - 11 March 2012
Sydney Theatre Company and Adelaide Festival in association with Bangarra Dance Theatre   In an expanse of red dust pounded by the hot Arnhem Land sun, a telegraph pole protrudes from the earth; a symbol of the scar that the modern world has left on an ancient community. This is Cherish's place. This is where she hides away from the real...
Never did me any harm
14 March 2012 - 17 March 2012
Force Majeure & Sydney Theatre Comapny Adelaide Festival, Sydney Festival and Melbourne Festival Australian Premiere Season Australia's leading dance theatre company Force Majeure takes inspiration from issues raised in Christos Tsiolkas' controversial book The Slap in a provocative new work exploring contemporary...
A Streetcar
14 March 2012 - 18 March 2012
Based on 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams Australian Premiere / Exclusive to Adelaide There was theatre before Krzysztof Warlikowski - and then there is theatre after Krzysztof Warlikowski. Europe's great avant garde director, Warlikowski, and one of Canada's finest theatre-makers, Wajdi Mouawad, put...
The Caretaker
10 March 2012 - 23 March 2012
8 - 9 March 2012 (previews)   By Harold Pinter Starring Jonathan Pryce Australian exclusive "It's about two brothers and a caretaker", Harold Pinter said simply of his early masterwork The Caretaker.
Me and My Shadow
17 April 2012 - 21 April 2012
By Patch Theatre Company, celebrating 40 years 1972 - 2012. A gentle story of the fanciful escapades of a girl who finds a way to be friends with her shadow Children love to play with shadows. They are mysterious and magical and can do amazing things. But making friends with your shadow can be a tricky business. There...
Henry Rollins
22 April 2012
For better than a quarter century, Henry Rollins has toured the world as a spoken word artist, as frontman for both 'Rollins Band' and 'Black Flag' and, without a microphone, as a solitary traveLler with insatiable curiosity, bypassing the resorts in favour of places like Siberia and Senegal, or Burma and Bangladesh. His curiosity and hunger for experienced based knowledge, teamed with his...
Heston Blumenthal Live
11 May 2012
Heston Blumenthal Live on Stage! This enthralling evening will focus on Heston's unique philosophy and approach to cooking, exploring taste and flavour, and his passion for the multi-sensory experience of eating and drinking. The chef of the three Michelin starred Fat Duck Restaurant in the UK and star of Heston's Feasts and the...
Namatjira
04 May 2012 - 12 May 2012
A Big hART production, created with the Namatjira family. Learn more about his life, legacy, inspiration and international impact Albert Namatjira’s life story provides a valuable insight, not only into Australia’s history, but into our modern-day relations with Indigenous people. At the height of his international fame, his artworks sold...
Circa
16 May 2012 - 19 May 2012
Making the physically impossible possible CIRCA is a thoroughly new kind of circus: daring, breathtaking and cheeky. This extraordinary troupe has left the high top and drum roll behind and stripped circus bare. Re-inventing circus as an art form, this is movement at its most adventurous, but with a cabaret twist and a larrikin’s flair....
The Glass Menagerie
04 May 2012 - 26 May 2012
On Sale 07 November 2011 By Tennessee Williams Set in St. Louis in the 1930’s, The Glass Menagerie is a “memory play” about the Wingfield family: Tom, who is torn between his obligation to his family and his desire to break away from the suffocating embrace of his mother Amanda and his shy and crippled sister...
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