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reveal Picasso’s future. A late night show at 10.45pm on Feb 11,13,18,20,25 and 27.
ART GALLERY OF WA Gallery 3: Lear — The M onologue;
OCTAGON THEATRE
director, David George; with Edgar Metcalf. An experimental adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, only Lear’s lines are delivered in a landscape of paintings and within a soundscape created by an exciting American musician, Greg Goodman. Feb 27. CIRCUS OZ
McCallum Park. Feb 7-21.
London Theatre Group presents TellTale Heart by Steven Berkoff, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Steven Berkoff and Terry James. An adaptation of two Edgar Allan Poe short stories, perfect vehicles for the Group’s style. Feb 4-20. Miss M argarida’s Way by Roberto Alhayde; with Estelle Parsons. Starts Feb 22.
CIVIC THEATRE RESTAURANT Julian Chagrin — rubber faced —
combines mime and the spoken word for an evening of hilarious visual comedy. Starts Feb 8. DOLPHIN THEATRE MUSHROOM TROUPE (3767364)
Starts with children’s spectacular Bombora at Alexander Theatre. MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY (6999122) Athenaeum: Minna Von Barnhelm by
Gotthold Lessing. Adapted by Ray Lawler; director, Ray Lawler; designer, Paul Kathner. Starts Feb 10. Russell Street: Virginia by Edna O’Brien; director, Judith Alexander, designer, Richard Prins. One-woman Virginia Woolf show. Athenaeum 2: Narrow Feint by David Knight; director, William Gluth, designer, Mark Wager. PLAYBOX THEATRE COMPANY (634888)
Playbox at the National Theatre: Steven Berkoff and the London Theatre Group in The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Berkoff’s stage production of an Edgar Allen Poe story from The Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Starts Feb 24. Upstairs: Lonely Lenny Lower by Barry Dickins; director, Rex Cramphorn, designer Sandra Matlock. Dickins’ latest comi-tragedy on Lower. UNIVERSAL THEATRE (4193777) Moomba Festival Of Drama starts
Feb 26. For entries contact Connie Kramer on 8619448.
The Swan River Stage Company presents The Dreamers by Jack Davis; director, Andrew Ross. The play examines the life of an Aboriginal family in the SW of WA. Feb 2,6,9,13,16 and 20. Matinees Feb 7,14 and 21. HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE
The Black Theatre Of Prague presents A Week Of Dreams. The programme is like an animal cartoon. The Black Theatre Of Prague performs magic and brings surrealism onto the stage. Piccolo Teatro Di Milano. Italy’s most famous theatre company and developers of the great Italian theatre tradition Commedia dell’Arte. The company’s legendary Harlequin Ferrucio -Soleri will introduce each scene in English. Starts Feb 24.
PERTH CONCERT HALL Robin Archer at Large Feb 23.
HOLE IN THE WALL THEATRE Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill. A
NATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY Playhouse: The Fields of Heaven by
hilarious and outrageous modern comedy which delights in absurdity, sexual conditioning and role playing. Starts Feb 5. My Name Is Pablo Picasso by Mary Gage. A play set in Montmartre where the young Picasso is living with his first mistress, La Belle Fernande, and struggling to make a name for himself. One night while Picasso is painting, Fernande, an old man appears and insists he can
Dorothy Hewett; director,,Rodney Fisher. Set in a fictitious district in the Great Southern area of WA during the period 1929-1951. It tells of destructive love and the annihilation of a fragile ecology in which the interlocking lives and conflicting values of the older settlers and migrants clash causing tragedy and exile. Starts Feb 9. For entries contact Margaret Schwan on 3411178.
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