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Event

Taking Steps

Venue

The Playhouse (1973-2000), Adelaide, SA

First Date

5 January 1993

Opening Date

2 January 1993

Last Date

23 January 1993

Dates Estimated

Status

Professional

World Premiere

Description

The play is set at The Pines and peopled by a group whose off-the-planet obsessions and neuroses are delivered in those strangulated vowel sounds that the British county classes are famous for

Description Source

Reviewer's Opinion

Primary Genre

Theatre - Spoken Word

Secondary Genre

Farce

Organisations

State Theatre Company of South Australia, Production Company
State Theatre Company of South Australia, Presenting Company
Adelaide Festival Centre Trust, Presenting Company

Contributors

Name	Function	Notes
Sarah Chadwick	Actor
Grant Dodwell	Actor
Merridy Eastman	Actor
Andrew McFarlane	Actor
Grant Piro	Actor
Frank Whitten	Actor
Shaun Gurton	Designer
Rodney Fisher	Director
Nick Schlieper	Lighting Designer
Alan Ayckbourn	Playwright

Resources

Review: Helen Covernton, The Advertiser, 7 January 1993
Review: John Edge, The Bulletin with Newsweek, 26 January 1993
Review: Krissie Scudds, Rip It Up, 21 January 1993
Review: Matt Byrne, City Messenger, 13 January 1993
Review: Murray Bramwell, The Adelaide Review, February 1993

Works

Taking Steps

Text Nationality

England

Production Nationality

Australia

Event Status

Completed

Data Source

Source	Description
Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record	March 1993
Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record	January 1993

Event Identifier

17331

Dataset

AusStage