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The $66 million rebuilding of Adelaide’s Her Majesty’s into what has been hailed one of the world’s finest theatres required a dance with its almost vanished history of a century ago.
The theatre’s grandeur has been restored in contemporary textures, including a stylish wood-filled auditorium likened to a ship’s hull and a new, additional west wing with a dramatic glass façade, as a lucky few Covid-restricted audience members discovered upon the theatre’s reopening in September 2020.
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Growing up in Colorado, New York-based artist Robin Frohardt was inspired to become a puppeteer not by cute children’s shows but by seeing a couple of puppet shows aimed at adults, including one based on Charles Bukowski poetry about necrophilia.
Frohardt was studying painting in school. “I never really knew what I wanted to paint,” she tells me from her home via Zoom. “I saw these really great puppet works for adults and had never seen anything like that before.
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