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OUR MAN IN HAVANA

Author Grahame Greene/Adapted by Clive Frances
Director Dave Simms

 PRESENTED BY STIRLING PLAYERS

 A hapless vacuum cleaner salesman gets sucked into a world of espionage in a murderously funny story told by 6 actors….and a vacuum cleaner!

 Jim Wormold, an under-employed vacuum cleaner salesman living in 1950s Cuba is struggling to pay for his teenage daughter’s extravagant lifestyle.  So, when the British Secret Service asks him to become their ‘man in Havana’ he can’t afford to say no.

There’s just one problem: he doesn’t know anything!

To avoid suspicion he beings to recruit non-existent sub-agents, concocting a series of intricate fictions.  But Wormold soon discovers that his stories are closer to the truth than he could have ever imagined.

In Clive Francis’ adaptation, Graham Greene’s classic, satirical novel, becomes a fast-moving romp, giving our cast a licence to over-act!

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LETTICE & LOVAGE

Lettice and Lovage. Lettice and Lovage is a comedic and satire play by Peter Shaffer. It is centered around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country house and who butts heads with a fact-conscious official at the house.

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Adelaide Festival of Ideas

In the age of the machines, when junk mail has become fake news, and space is but another frontier, some 90 invited thinkers, drinkers and doers will come together at the 2018 Adelaide Festival of Ideas, for a series of mainly free thought-provoking presentations, in-conversations, round tables and special events.

Over three nights and three days, 12-15 July, scientists of all kinds, policy wonks, historians, economists, educationalists, theologians and artists will share with us their wisdom. Who knows ‘Who’s at the Wheel’? Rug up and join us as the winter sun rises on Adelaide’s West End knowledge precinct.  Full program available end of June http://adelaidefestivalofideas.com.au

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