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17th Edition September, 2010 FEATURES Pages 2-20 SPORT Page 19 THEATRE Pages 22-33 WINING & DINING Pages 34-36 FILM Pages 38-41 PROCRASTINATE Pages 13, 19, 37 SHORT STORY Page 42 Caitlin Stasey, star of Tomorrow When The War Began. Profile John Marsden In a 21 year writing career John Marsden has written and edited more than 30 books, which John Marsden, author of have sold four million copies world-wide and been translated into fourteen languages. In Tomorrow, When The addition to the Tomorrow series he has also authored So Much to Tell You, Secret Men’s Business War Began. and Everything I Know About Writing. With that commercial success, John has also won the plaudits of his peers, being awarded every major writing award in Australia for young people’s fiction and, internationally, he has been prominently recognised in the US and Austria. In Germany, he won the coveted Buxtehuder Bulle, an award given biennially for the best young person’s book in the world for the preceding two years. The popular Tomorrow series of seven titles has sold over 2.5 million copies and has been translated into seven languages. Since its release in 1993, Marsden always knew there was something about Tomorrow, When the War Began that seemed to jump off the page. “I did realise writing Tomorrow, When the War Began that there was a very visual quality to it that not many of my other books have. Even as I writing it I could see a movie in my head. In this book the characters seemed very real to me from the moment I started writing them and they were jumping off the page and seemed almost three- dimensional” 2 Adelaide’s Own and Only On-line Street Mag Caitlin Stasey of Tomorrow, When The War Began Image by Harry Pearce 3 Profile John Marsden “The fact that people nowadays aren’t given the chance to be heroic doesn’t mean that they can’t be – it just means that the opportunities don’t come along. No-one wants a war and no-one wants to be caught in a bushfire or some other really demanding situation, but at the same time when you are in those situations it’s important to know that you do have the right stuff, that if you dig deep you will find a kind of resilience and stamina and capacity for heroism that you Deniz Akdeniz - Image by Harry Pearce may never have been aware of in yourself. Marsden believes that one of the most “The fact that people powerful themes for any writer is people moving through stages of their life and nowadays aren’t given evolving to the next stage. Marsden says, “For the chance to be me, adolescence was a powerful time and I have been fascinated by the turmoil and heroic doesn’t mean stress that our lives experience during those that they can’t be..” years. By putting that into the context of a war, it’s like the stresses become tangible and external, so it’s like a representation of what’s happening inside you is then put out into the landscape”. Pump in action, drama and all the pressure of teenage romances and relationships and in Tomorrow, When The War Began, audiences can look forward to a big, bold film, Australian to its core. Courtesy Paramount Pictures 4 Adelaide’s Own and Only On-line Street Mag Features Oz Asia Preview The Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival, now in its fourth year, continues to build momentum. The program includes a wide range of performance pieces in various styles, presented by both international companies and local artists with Asian heritage and influences. Previous festivals have been well received; with public enthusiasm, sell out performances, and critical acclaim. The festival has been praised for increasing cross-cultural understanding within the community by bringing people together to learn about and enjoy the traditions of our closest geographical neighbours - who now make up a large part of our own South Australian society. In 2010 the festival has a Korean focus, though artists from many other countries are also featured. Each year, the special events included in the OzAsia program are some of the most anticipated on the local calendar. In addition to the beloved Moon Lantern Festival and the return of the popular Animania Festival, the program in 2010 includes forums, workshops, visual art exhibitions and Q&A sessions. Though based primarily at the Festival Centre, the OzAsia Festival also incorporates a program of Asian film, which will be screened at the Mercury Cinema. This line-up includes many Australian feature film premieres as well as the new Sweet & Short, short film presentation. With such a variety of shows and events on offer, there’s likely to be something to everyone’s taste. Miriam Keane 6 Adelaide’s Own and Only On-line Street Mag 7 Nan Jombang, Oz Asia OZ ASIA : Key Shows People may remember the Yohangza Theatre Company from their impressive and wildly popular 2007 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This year they return with Hamlet. Once again this innovative company brings their own twist to the well-known tale, weaving the mystique of Korean shamanism into the traditional story-line. Audiences also have the chance to attend a free forum on Intercultural Shakespeare. With musical pieces from a range of Asian backgrounds, Afternoon absurdiTEA brings together the sounds of these countries and presents them in conjunction with live poetry. In addition to performing their own show, the Australian Chinese Music Ensemble, lead by Wang Zheng Ting, will be part of this special mix of Eastern and Western culture. For something unique, Yegam Theatre Company’s Jump offers audiences a combination of dance, acrobatics and martial arts. Having enjoyed successful seasons at other international festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe, where it was the No. 1 box office smash, this vibrant and original show now comes to Adelaide to wow audiences with its cheeky physicality in an exclusive Australian season. On a more serious note, When His Watch Stopped, from Sadari Theatre Company, explores the impact of war on those left behind. Focusing on a young married couple, but drawing from the experiences of children who have been exposed to these issues, this performance utilises several mediums to tell this powerful and important story. Miriam Keane 9 The Dhol Foundation Feature Medindee Lakes The royal commission held some years later to investigate the financial and environmental debacle that ensued noted that the river did not always flow regularly, the land was marginal at best and disease was not far away, none of which had been factored in during the early years of good times. Water, Water Then in 1960, the Menindee lakes storage system was created to allow flood waters Everywhere... BUT from the north to settle and be stored in While Broken Hill is synonymous with the three main natural lakes, Pamamaroo, prosperity and its contribution to national Menindee and Cawndilla and the created wealth and legend, the township of Lake Wetherell. Over 45,000 hectares, 1.8m Menindee, 100 kms to its south, has a Megalitres of water can be stored in the more problematic reputation being front good times for the official purposes of and centre in three great disasters, all Provision of regulated flows for the associated with gross under-estimations by water supply and irrigation man of the realities of the land around it. Allowance for periodic releases to First Burke and Wills used it as a staging replenish storages post during their most ill-fated trek. Their base camp, established at Menindee Availability of a large part of the on 19th October 1860, remained until storage to the River Murray Australia Day the following year but even Commission for use along the lower by the time of their arrival much of the Murray River idiocy of the expedition had been exposed Provision of an assured water supply and only those less attuned to its folly for Broken Hill progressed to Cooper Creek and beyond. This past summer saw two enormous, A few years after that, farmers took a shine ‘once in a century’ systems rain down on to the water flowing down the Darling southern Queensland and northern NSW and embarked on a massive pastoral and produce a water flow sufficient to fully expansion with sheep at the heart of their replenish the Menindee lakes. Judging by endeavours. Sadly, it all came a cropper. 10 Adelaide’s Own and Only On-line Street Mag Medindee Lakes Feature Water Before the Weir Water Beyond the Weir 11 Images by Harry Pearce Feature Medindee Lakes the original purposes, those associated with this venture fifty years ago would no doubt have considered reviving the ailing lower lakes and Coorong an obvious and much needed outcome. Instead, local vineyards Lake Cawndilla at Sunset - Image by Harry Pearce and cotton fields and a raft of other water allocations up and downstream from the weir have sprouted up to drain away those better intentions. Now South Australia will receive only about the same amount that will evaporate from these lakes this year (for they are at most 7m deep at any point!) As one looks across the lakes shimmering in the winter sun, one has to conclude that if, in the year that two ‘once in a century’ rains came, there is not enough water available to produce a thorough cleansing and healing of the system then all too clearly we have made an enormous hash of it all.

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