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Scottish-born Shona Reppe has been described as the fairy godmother of puppet theatre. She will bring her internationally acclaimed, award winning tabletop production of Cinderella to Adelaide for Windmill’s 2010 season finale. Direct from sell-out seasons on Broadway and in Sydney, Shona’s petite production of Cinderella has toured Canada, Belgium, France, Japan and the Netherlands. The show is suitable for ages 5-10 and their families. The public performances commence on 25 September playing to 2 October in the Forge Theatre, Marryatville High School, 170 Kensington Road Marryatville. Every day is bad hair day for Shona’s ‘Cinders’ as she vies for the hand of the handsome prince and battles her sinister stepsisters across an intricate tabletop stage laced with secret hatches and hidden drawers. Shona Reppe Puppets’ Cinderella is unlike any other you and your kids may have seen. It is a magical and mischievous delight; combining simple storytelling with lush and inventive images. nytheatre.com… It’s a bonny affair from the start. Reppe, who’s visible throughout behind the tabletop stage, has a lilting brogue that makes her words sound like song. Much of the show’s magic lies in her nimble fingers and her interactions with her inanimate cast. Time Out New York
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Adelaide Festival Centre’s CEO and Artistic Director, Douglas Gautier announcedthat the Artistic Director for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival for 2012 and 2013 will be nohe other than Kate Ceberano. Award-winning singer and songwriter, Kate Ceberano has been a leading star of Australia’s music industry writing and singing soul, jazz and pop for more than 25 years. She has won multiple ARIA and Mo awards, a Logie Award and achieved five Platinum and five Gold albums. She has sold more than one million albums in Australia alone. Kate was the winner of season six of Channel 7’s Dancing with the Stars, helping the show to be the highest rated television program in 2007. She played the role of Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar which toured nationally with the album the biggest hit of the year (4 times Platinum). She also won a Logie Award for Most Popular Music Video for Everything’s Alright taken from the show. Kate also hosted her own late-night cabaret-style show on ABC TV during 1993-1994, Kate Ceberano and Friends. A strong believer in using her gifts for the good of others, Kate is the Victorian Ambassador for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, helping the organisation to raise awareness and funds for the disease. I am very excited about Kate’s appointment as David Campbell’s successor for the 2012 and 2013 Adelaide Cabaret Festivals, said Douglas Gautier, Chief Executive Officer and Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival Centre.
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”Paul Hogan has vowed to take his five-year fight with the Australian Taxation Office to the bitter end, saying he would rather go bankrupt than pay money he does not owe. The actor told The Australian in a long interview yesterday that he reckoned he was an ‘ideal scalp’ for the tax office’s $300 million Wickenby investigation into the use of offshore tax havens, but insisted he was not guilty. Hogan, who also appeared on A Current Affair last night to argue his case, said he was tired of being ‘smeared’ as a tax dodger, and that he could not pay even a tenth of what the tax office was demanding, and that the case against him appeared to be based on a statement by a ‘disgruntled’ employee who was sacked years ago. Hogan’s wife, US-based actress Linda Kozlowski, is too scared to join him in Australia while, after being hit with a Departure Prohibition Order, Hogan feels he is being kept a virtual prisoner in the country he loves. ‘It is just so un-Australian’, Hogan said. ‘Whatever happened to this country? Whatever happened to a fair go’? Hogan has been the target of the Wickenby investigation for five years, with its focus on the use of offshore structures to deal with the flow of royalties from his Crocodile Dundee movies. The actor has denied any wrongdoing and has never been charged with any offence. When asked what he thought would happen next, he said: ‘I can’t pay 10 per cent of it, and if they keep me here, seize whatever assets I have . . . they can declare me bankrupt’ “Literary
“A German central banker with outspoken views on Turks, Jews and the decline of his country has defended himself amid calls for his dismissal by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Thilo Sarrazin told the Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag that ’all Jews share the same gene’ and that Muslim immigrants across Europe were not willing or capable of integrating into Western societies. Yesterday at the launch of his book, Germany is Abolishing Itself, which warns against the effects of Muslim immigration, Mr Sarrazin denied he was a racist
and insisted on his right to freedom of speech. The Bundesbank said that its executive board would talk to Mr Sarrazin and then decide on further steps. Mr Sarrazin, 65, caused an earlier uproar by suggesting that people on welfare should spend only $A7 a day on food, mocking them for being overweight and sloppy dressers”
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