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‘Memorial’ is an elegy for the fallen soldiers of The Iliad that, through its potent alchemy of poetry, music and clever use of an enormous chorus, delivers a powerful statement about the human cost of war.
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Rehearsals in small groups; rehearsals en masse; rehearsals with the dancers, the children, the singers, the orchestra; technical rehearsals; dress rehearsals. That’s a lot of rehearsals to play one of 215 dead soldiers, writes Rosemary Cadden.
Marking the centenary of the 1918 Armistice and featuring a cast of 215 people, Brink Productions’ theatrical adaptation of poet Alice Oswald’s Memorial is a reflection on both the horror of war and what it is to be human.
A minimal set and the sounds of gunfire, rain and clouds of insects plunge audience members into the horror of the Battle of Long Tan in this moving new work from Brink Productions.
Chris Drummond has felt more like a choreographer than a director while working on Brink Productions’ latest show, re-creating fragments of battle scenes that seek to convey some of the horror of Long Tan.
Funny, clever and inventive, this South Australian production of Molière’s classic tale of the slick conman Tartuffe is a marvellous fusion of old and new, writes reviewer Greg Elliott.
