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§ Codgers, by Don Reid (Steady Lads | Adelaide Festival Centre, Elder Park) — A play built for boomers. Eavesdrop on six senior Aussie men, some of them mates since war service, as they sweat it out each week in a gym and are taken on inter-connected journeys that are challenging, touching and very funny. When secrets, differences and loss of trust threaten to destroy their long established friendships, they learn that ‘difference’ is more a matter of point of view; that ‘you wouldn’t be dead for quids’ and, no matter what, that you gotta laugh! 30–31 Mar.
Image: Graham Rouse & Ron Haddrick in Codgers. Photographer: Nicholas Higgins.
UPDATED: 01 MARCH 2010
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
ADELAIDE
Already on ... listed in order of closing date
§ Adelaide Fringe Festival 2010 (The Bakehouse Theatre, Angas Street) — Various performances. Until 14 Mar.
§ Adelaide Festival 2010 (Tall Stories | Adelaide Festival Centre, Elder Park) — Various performances. Until 14 Mar.
Yet to open ... listed in order of opening date
§ The Walworth Farce, by Enda Walsh (Druid Theatre | Her Majesty's Theatre, Grote Street) — It’s 11 in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road in London. In two hours time, as is normal, three Irish men will have consumed six cans of Harp, 15 crackers with spreadable cheese, 10 pink biscuit wafers and one oven-cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours time, as is normal, five people will have been killed. Hilarious, horrifying and ferociously entertaining, The Walworth Farce is an achingly tender insight into what happens when we become stuck in the stories we tell ourselves about our lives. 3–7 Mar.
§ The Gruffalo (Tall Stories | Adelaide Festival Centre, Elder Park) — Take the grandkids. Join Mouse on an adventurous journey through the deep, dark wood in this magical, musical adaptation of the Blue Peter award-winning picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. 12–17 Apr.
§ Influence, by David Williamson (University of Adelaide Theatre Guild | The Little Theatre, University of Adelaide) — Award winning local director and actor Brant Eustice returns to the Theatre Guild to direct Williamson's tale of a Sydney shock-jock. Ziggi Blasco influences the mighty and the impotent through the airwaves of his city. He rants about the terrorist threat, attacks political correctness and extols the virtues of common sense. Sound familiar? But in private, Ziggi's influence is rapidly shrinking as his family and domestic staff find him increasingly irrelevant and repulsive. 8–22 May.
§ Bedroom Farce, by Alan Ayckborn (Galleon Theatre Group | Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park) — The play takes place in three bedrooms during one night and the following morning. The cast consists of four married couples. At the beginning of the play, the oldest couple, Delia and Ernest, are getting ready to go out for a meal to celebrate their wedding anniversary; Malcolm and Kate, the youngest, are about to host a housewarming party, to which the other two couples, Jan and Nick and Susannah and Trevor (the only ones whose bedroom is not seen), have been invited. 20–29 May.
§ (Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh) —
*Synopses and performance dates are as listed on relevant theatre-company website. Performances are listed chronologically by closing date.