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Look Homeward, Angel
2018-11-20 18:30 - 21:00, 2018-11-21 18:30 - 21:00, 2018-11-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2018-11-23 19:30 - 22:00, 2018-11-24 14:00 - 16:30, 2018-11-24 19:30 - 22:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Goodwood Institute, 166 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood, SA, 5034, Australia
What is it about great sprawling family sagas that continues to enthral readers and audiences?
If Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet has become the great Australian family-story, then Thomas Wolfe’s mighty 1929 novel is its American forebear.
Both tell the story of large crazy families living in unruly old houses. Both trace the attempts of children to escape their families, while, at the same time, finding themselves drawn back into the circle. And both do it with great compassion and a rich layer of humour.
Thomas Wolfe was a larger-than-life figure, who wrote larger-than-life novels – that translate powerfully to the stage.
Look Homeward Angel is based on his own life, and large, eccentric family in Asheville, North Carolina, in the early part of the twentieth century. Like his hero, Eugene Gant, Wolfe was filled with words, images and ideas, bursting to break away and become a writer.
Wolfe’s genius was recognised by the legendary editor, Maxwell Perkins, at Charles Scribner Sons in New York. Perkins had discovered, and edited, Ernest Hemingway
and F Scott Fitzgerald.
Reading Wolfe’s sprawling manuscript, Perkins realised that he had a masterpiece in his hands, and worked with Wolfe to wrestle the novel into shape. It was published in1929, to universal acclaim.

As You Like It
2018-11-21 19:00 - 21:30, 2018-11-22 19:00 - 21:30, 2018-11-23 19:00 - 21:30, 2018-11-24 19:00 - 21:30, 2018-11-25 16:00 - 18:30 | Pfitzner Court, Gate 14, Kintore Avenue, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
All the world’s a stage…
… and for their 80th anniversary Shakespeare production, the Theatre Guild is making the
outdoors their stage, in Pfitzner Court.
Rosalind’s father, Duke Senior, has been deposed from his corporate empire by his scheming brother, Frederick. Orlando’s brother, Oliver, wants him killed. The Duke and his followers, including the melancholy Jaques, find refuge in The Forest of Arden.
Rosalind is fleeing her usurping uncle with her cousin Celia and Orlando is escaping his murderous brother together with his faithful servant Adam.
Once in the forest, they meet a carnival of characters. Will they find themselves, their families and true love? Of course!
Come and join us for a picnic in the grounds of the University of Adelaide and enjoy one of Shakespeare’s most loved comedies.
Cast: AJ Bartley, Matilda Butler, Jean Collins, Matthew Chapman, Geoff Dawes, Christina Devetzidis, Tim Edhouse, Guy Henderson, Rebecca Kemp, Claire Langsford, Philip Lineton, Esther Michelsen, Riordan Miller-Frost and Dylan O’Donnell.

Man of La Mancha
2018-11-21 20:00 - 22:30, 2018-11-22 20:00 - 22:30, 2018-11-23 20:00 - 22:30, 2018-11-24 14:00 - 16:30, 2018-11-24 20:00 - 22:30 | St. Jude’s Players, 444 Brighton Rd, Brighton, South Australia, 5048, Australia
Miguel de Cervantes, aging and an utter failure as playwright, poet and tax collector, has been thrown into a dungeon in Seville to await trial by the Inquisition for an offense against the Church. There he is dragged before a kangaroo court of his fellow prisoners, who plan to confiscate his few possessions—including the incomplete manuscript of a novel, Don Quixote. Cervantes, seeking to save the manuscript, proposes his defense in the form of a play. The “court” agrees, and Cervantes and his manservant don make-up and costumes, transforming themselves into Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. They then play out the story with the prisoners taking the roles of other characters.
Quixote and Sancho take to the road in a quest to restore the age of chivalry, battle all evil, and right all wrongs.
The mad Don Quixote may think a windmill to be a giant and a tavern to be a castle, but along the way he also transforms a wretched woman into a beautiful lady – and proves that an old man’s belief can truly make him a knight. Man of La Mancha features such stirring songs as “Dulcinea” and the now-famous standard, “Quest” – more famously known as “The Impossible Dream.”

And Then There Were None
2018-11-21 20:00 - 22:30, 2018-11-22 20:00 - 22:30, 2018-11-23 20:00 - 22:30, 2018-11-24 14:00 - 16:30, 2018-11-24 20:00 - 22:30 | The Arts Theatre, 53 Angus Street, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia
A night of mystery, manipulation and murder
Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None remains the world’s most read mystery novel, and one of the top ten best selling novels of all time, with over 100 million copies sold since its first publication in 1939. This November, the Adelaide Rep will be bringing this classic tale to the stage, working from a script by the grand dame of crime herself, which contains some deliciously wicked twists and turns exclusive to the theatrical experience!
Ten strangers, with apparently nothing in common, each receive an “invitation” from a sinister blackmailer, compelling them to spend the night in a remote mansion on an island off the coast of Devon. Upon arrival, they hear a recording of their unseen host, accusing each guest of concealing a guilty secret and threatening violent retribution for their sins. The onset of a raging storm ensures that the innocent and guilty alike are completely cut off from contact with the mainland, trapped like rats in a maze devised a diabolical criminal genius, with murder on his mind… and unlike in other Agatha Christie stories, there is no heroic sleuth on hand to stop this deadly game from playing itself out, so all the characters are forced to confront the darkest parts of their own natures in order to stand a chance of survival.
And Then There Were None boasts an eclectic ensemble of Adelaide’s finest amateur thespians, showcasing both established veterans of the stage and emerging new talent. Sharp direction, combined with striking light and sound effects, combine to create a grippingly suspenseful ambience. A nail-biting, edge of the seat night out at the theatre!
Director Adrian Barnes is an award-winning performer, who started his professional career in the UK after training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He’s worked professionally worldwide since 1969, is an honorary member of The MEAA, has worked in The West End, in every capital city in Australia, taught at prestigious theatre schools around the world and has acted alongside renowned actors like Cate Blanchette and Richard Roxburgh.

Explain the Handcuffs
2018-11-23 19:00 - 21:30, 2018-11-24 19:00 - 21:30, 2018-11-25 14:00 - 16:30 | Mount Pleasant Soldier’s Memorial Hall, 61 Melrose St, Mount Pleasant, SA, 5235, Australia
There will be lots of hamming it up in Top of the Torren’s Theatre Group’s next play ‘Explain the Handcuffs – A Time Travel Comedy’. Frank, an eccentric home scientist is obsessed with building a time machine and his wife, Maude is trying everything to regain her husband’s attention. Imagine what mayhem proceeds when Frank succeeds, and they are thrown three hundred years into the future!
‘Explain the Handcuffs’ will be performed at Mt Pleasant Soldiers Memorial Hall at 7pm on Sat 17th, Fri 23rd & Sat 24th November and 2pm on Sun 18th & 25th November in the popular cabaret format so you can bring along your own drinks and nibbles.
Tickets are still only $25 Adults, $20 Concession & $10 Students, available from www.stickytickets.com.au or by ringing 856 82171.
And what about the cheese, you may ask? You’ll have to come along to find out what the cheese reference is all about!

Puss In Boots!
2018-11-23 19:30 - 22:00, 2018-11-24 14:30 - 17:00, 2018-11-24 19:30 - 22:00, 2018-11-30 19:30 - 22:00 | Tea Tree Players Theatre, Cnr Yatala Vale Road and Hancock Road, Surrey Downs, SA, 5126, Australia
Written By Ben Crocker
Directed By Robert Andrews

A Starry Night
2018-11-29 20:00 - 22:30, 2018-11-30 20:00 - 22:30 | Springbank Secondary College, 716 Tower Arts Centre/Springbank Secondary College Goodwood Rd, Pasadena, South Australia, 5042, Australia
Directed by Pam Tucker
