Theatre / “Potted Potter”, Centrepoint Productions, The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre, until July 18. Reviewed by
LEN POWER.
FOR people concerned that not having read the Harry Potter books will affect their enjoyment of “Potted Potter”, don’t worry.
Created by Daniel Clarkson and Jeff Turner, and directed by Daniel Clarkson, “Potted Potter” is back in Canberra for a second season and this crazy show takes on the challenge of condensing all seven very big books of the Harry Potter series into 70 minutes. Impossible? Well, yes it is of course but that doesn’t stop the two very busy New Zealand actors, Adam Brown and Tama Jarman, from giving it their best shot and entertaining the audience in the process.
A still from “Another Country”
IN “Another Country”, actor David Gulpilil tells the tale of what happened when his people’s way of life was interrupted at the beginning of the 20th century when cattle barons, missionaries and the Australian Government made a concerted effort to gain control of the lands of the Yolngu people of northern Arnhem Land. At the National Film and Sound Archive, 2pm, Saturday, July 10. Bookings here.
OPENING this weekend at Canberra Museum and Gallery is the exhibition “Ruth Lane-Poole: A Woman of Influence”, about the Commonwealth’s first “interior furnisher”, a writer on interior decoration in popular magazines in the mid-1920s who worked with the architects on matters relating to the furnishing of Government House and The Lodge in time for the opening of Parliament House in 1927. At CMAG, Civic Square, July 10-October 2.
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