RE-ADVERTISED: ROLE FOR A MARKETING COORDINATOR

Brink Productions is an award-winning Adelaide-based theatre company creating original text-based work

Brink seeks a motivated and energetic marketing coordinator who is dedicated to delivering campaigns...

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2010 Brink Privilege Card

You can buy your 2010 Brink Privilege Card from Festival Theatre BASS counter

The 2010 Brink Privilege Card is $38.95 and valid until 31 Dec 2010

Privileges BPC holders will receive include:

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HIT PRODUCTION - THE ADVERTISER

Brink Productions' 2008 Adelaide Festival hit When The Rain Stops Falling has received six nominations at the 2009 Sydney Theatre Awards for its run for Sydney Theatre Company. It is nominated for best mainstage...

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BRINK SEEKS PHILANTHROPY COORDINATOR

Brink Productions seeks a motivated and energetic Philanthropy Coordinator who has the drive to make a difference and cares about the value of the arts in the community.

The Philanthropy Coordinator will be part of a small team. You...

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GORGE '09 - RADIO ADELAIDE REVIEW

Radio Transcript
by Myk Mykyta

Last week Brink Productions and the Adelaide Festival Centre’s InSpace program gave people an opportunity to experience the process of creating theatre. The show was Gorge ‘09 at the...

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GORGE '09 - GREEN ROOM REVIEW - 3RD DAY

Licked the plate clean!
by Josephine Were

Although everyone had been overindulging for the last two nights, the glorious Libby O'Donovan, AKA Mistress of Ceremonies, still found room to scull a patron's beer as she kicked off...

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GORGE '09 - NO PLAIN JANE REVIEW: DAY 3

by Jane Howard

The third and final night of Gorge 09 gave us Nicki Bloom’s Footsoldiers presented by Real Time Collaborators and Stone/Castro. Bloom’s script was, I felt, the strongest of the three nights, with the most directed frame...

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GORGE '09 -NO PLAIN JANE REVIEW: DAY 2

by Jane Howard

Night two of Gorge, and we have one new writer and two new production companies stepping up to the plate: Matthew Cormack’s Like Brothers In A Bathtub presented by TheimaGen and Unreasonable...

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GORGE '09 - NO PLAIN JANE REVIEW: DAY 1

by Jane Howard

Gorge 09 presented Arilio Zavarce’s Conflict Under An Australian Quilt in productions helmed by free-lance director Daniel Clarke and free-lance choreographer Aidan Munn.

Conflict Under An...

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GORGE '09 - THE ADVERTISER REVIEW

by Patrick McDonald

Until November 21 @ Space Theatre Three new 10-minute plays by different authors are each staged twice on different nights, by six companies.

Authors have no contact with the performers and only see how...

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GORGE '09 - GREEN ROOM REVIEW - 2ND DAY

by Jane Howard

Night two of Gorge 09 gave us Matthew Cormack’s Like Brothers In A Bathtub presented by TheimaGen and Unreasonable Adults.

Cormack’s play tells the story of artist George, as he struggles with...

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GORGE '09 - GREEN ROOM REVIEW 1ST DAY

by Chloe Truehl

I had no idea what to expect from gOrge ’09. I walked in with a relatively open mind to watch the controversial Conflict under an Australian Quilt and left dreaming of the possibilities...

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THE HYPOCHONDRIAC - ADVERTISER REVIEW

by Samela Harris

The jokes may be 350 years old, but far from stale. This Molière treat has been treated to a new adaptation by Paul Galloway.

And it absolutely rocks with humour. White faces, period costumes, antiquated...

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THE HYPOCHONDRIAC - AUSTRALIAN REVIEW

by Murray Bramwell

Laughter may be the best medicine, but in the case of Moliere's The Hypochondriac, you would have to say that medicine is the best laughter. Also known as The Imaginary Invalid, this pungent comedy...

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THE HYPOCHONDRIAC - dB MAGAZINE REVIEW

by David Grybowski

Can you believe that Molière collapsed on stage, continued performing and died of pulmonary tuberculosis a few hours after playing the eponymous role in 1673? It’s a cautionary tale because you might die laughing...

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THE HYPOCHONDRIAC - FRINGE BENEFITS REVIEW

by Kosta Jaric

Moliére was a comedic genius in his time, but it is a testament to Brink Production’s catastrophically hilarious adaptation of The Hypochondriac that his work shines on stage at the Space Theatre...

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THE HYPOCHONDRIAC - RADIO ADELAIDE REVIEW

by Myk Mykyta

It is said that at any time somewhere in the world there is a Shakespeare play running and a play by Moliere. Brink Productions are contributing with Moliere’s The Hypochondriac or Le Malade...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - TIME OUT (SYDNEY) REVIEW

by Nick Dent

Andrew Bovell's latest play is a theatrical Rubik's cube, mixing things up between London and Australia, four generations, and seven major characters, most of whom have the name 'Gabriel'. It withholds its secrets with...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - VARIETY (LOS ANGELES) REVIEW

by Michaela Boland

A rich collaboration from theatermakers working in peak form, When the Rain Stops Falling is a neatly cascading family saga that spans four generations in England and Australia between 1959 and 2039. Picked...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - AUSTRALIAN STAGE ONLINE REVIEW

by Augusta Supple

From the very first moment when we are cocooned in darkness listening to the sound of rain as it splashes down, to the silence of the cast as they lift their eyes listening for rain: we are completely transported to...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH REVIEW

by Jo Litson

It's 2039 and the rain is relentless. Fish are virtually extinct. Then one falls from the sky, landing at a man's feet: strange, particularly since he's in Alice Springs, but manna from heaven to feed the son he hasn't seen...

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IT NEVER RAINS, IT POURS

In the lead up to the presentation of When The Rain Stops Falling at Sydney Opera House, Bryce Hallet interviewed playwright, Andrew Bovell. 

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BRINK PRIVILEGE CARD

In 2009 Brink launches the inaugural Brink Privilege Card.   To secure your 2009 Brink Privilege Card you can download the pdf application form

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LONDON CALLS FOR 'RAIN'

A brand new production of Andrew Bovell's award winning script  When the Rain Stops Falling - originally commissioned, developed and premiered by Brink Productions for the 2008 Adelaide Festival - will be presented...

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NOW 'RAIN' FOR MELBOURNE

Brink Productions' award winning 2008 Adelaide Festival premiere, When the Rain Stops Falling, will have a seven week season in Melbourne as part of the Melbourne Theatre Company's 2009 subscription season announced...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING WINS SECOND LITERARY AWARD

The 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards have been announced with Andrew Bovell's When The Rain Stops Falling winning the Drama Script (Stage) Award.  See the judges comments below"

"This...

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'RAIN' FOR SYDNEY

Brink Productions' 2008 Adelaide Festival premiere, When the Rain Stops Falling, acclaimed as the theatrical hit of the festival, will have a six week run in Sydney as part of the Sydney Theatre Company's 2009...

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THE CLOCKWORK FOREST - AUSTRALIAN STAGE REVIEW

by Jack Teiwes

Children’s theatre, much like children’s movies, is a medium that requires a degree of cross-demographic appeal. Unlike Saturday-morning cartoons, picture books or old-fashioned comics where one can simply plant the...

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THE CLOCKWORK FOREST - KEVIN JACKSON'S THEATRE REVIEWS

This is children’s theatre. Maybe I should write this is THEATRE, whether it be for children or us grownups. This production loves us and gives us something for the effort of joining them. We are important to their priorities of action....

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THE CLOCKWORK FOREST - ARTS HUB REVIEW

by Katie Preston

Doug MacLeod’s book The Clockwork Forest has been transformed into a hauntingly beautiful play currently running at The Sydney Theatre.

The play is about a young boy’s journey through a dark...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - ADELAIDE THEATRE GUIDE REVIEW

by Simon Slade

Words are insufficient, you must see this show to understand how exceptional it is.

Well executed, genuinely moving, and with some very amusing moments as well, this is destined to be a modern classic....

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - RADIO ADELAIDE REVIEW

by Myk Mykyta.

The fluttering wings of a butterfly in the Amazon forest cause a cyclone in northern Australia.

That could well be the thesis for Andrew Bovell’s new play When the Rain Stops Falling given a superb, loving...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - STAGE NOISE REVIEW

UNABASHED AND AMBITIOUS THEATRE
by Diana Simmonds - March 11th, 2008

In our household we talk about something being "a Lantana moment". It's that instant when you suddenly recognise the unexpected and hitherto hidden...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - THE ADVERTISER REVIEW

by Samela Harris
February 28, 2008 10:30pm
 
LONG awaited and highly anticipated, Andrew Bovell's new play does not disappoint - although it does, from time to time, confuse.

The confusion is about time - for the play...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - THE AUSTRALIAN REVIEW

by Murray Bramwell | March 03, 2008

A keenly anticipated work has been unveiled at the Adelaide Festival.

In 2004 the Extinction Project began with Brink Productions' Chris Drummond, distinguished visual artist Hossein...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - INDEPENDENT WEEKLY REVIEW

by Kath Lockett

Lantana writer Andrew Bovell’s new play covers a timespan of 80 years: London in the 1960s, Australia and London in the '80s, through to Adelaide in 2013. The audience is witness to a brilliantly-devised chain...

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BEETLE GRADUATION - RADIO ADELAIDE REVIEW

By Myk Mykyta

We all know that life is a struggle and the hardest is in the leaving of life.  On a square rink in the Space Theatre we can watch a struggle of life and death of a mother and her daughter.  I am talking...

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BEETLE GRADUATION - THE AUSTRALIAN REVIEW

MOTHER LODE OF CRUELTY AND LOVE
by Murray Bramwell

You wouldn’t think a loving mother would call her daughter Beetle. But the relationship between mothers and daughters often can be a complicated mix of love and rivalry,...

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BEETLE GRADUATION - INDEPENDENT WEEKLY REVIEW

by Georgia Gowing

Brink’s latest show is a slightly strange offering. Written as one of a surreal trilogy around the theme of emergence, this two-hander features Carmel Johnson as a mother and Michaela Cantwell her...

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BEETLE GRADUATION - ADELAIDE THEATRE GUIDE REVIEW

by Richard Flynn

As its name suggests, Brink is in the business of presenting ‘edgy’ theatre and this play – Beetle Graduation, one in a trilogy by Australian writer Susan Rogers - is challenging stuff...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - 2008 HELPMANN AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

Brink Productions' 2008 Adelaide Festival hit, When the Rain Stops Falling, has received three 2008 Helpmann Awards nominations: for Best Play (Brink Productions), Best New Australian Work (writer...

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - 2008 CURTAIN CALL AWARDS NOMINATIONS

Brink Productions' 2008 Festival hit, When The Rain Stops Falling, has been nominated for two Australian Theatre Guide 2007/2008 "Curtain Call" Awards.

Best Show - Drama (Professional)

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING - CAST CHANGE ANNOUNCED

Brink Productions' Executive Producer Kay Jamieson has announced a casting change for When the Rain Stops Falling, which is currently in rehearsal in Adelaide for its world premiere at the 2008 Adelaide Bank Festival...

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THE EXTINCTION PROJECT RECEIVES MAJOR NEW FUNDING

On Friday, 21 July it was announced by Arts SA that The Extinction Project, a new Australian work currently being developed by Brink Productions, has been awarded a Major Commissions grant. The Extinction...

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THIS UNCHARTED HOUR WINS AWARD

this uncharted hour by Finegan Kruckemeyer, was among the winners announced at the 2006 Festival Awards for Literature during a ceremony held on the opening day of Adelaide Writers' Week.  Presented by SA Premier the Hon. Mike...

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