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Lewis Carroll’s Boojum! makes serious-nonsense in Adelaide

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Reviewed at Adelaide Festival Centre: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide on 5 July 2019
Wesley-Smith, Boojum!
State Opera South Australia
Warwick Stengårds, Conductor
Joseph Mitchell, Director
Simone Romaniuk, Set Designer
Adam Goodburn, Rev C L Dodgson
Brock Roberts, Lewis Carroll
Katrina Mackenzie, Alice
Joanna McWaters, Mrs Hargreaves
Jeremy Tatchell, Al, the American
Joshua Rowe, Wal, the Bellman
Mark Oates, Caterpillar
Norbert Hohl, Carl, the Russian
Charlotte Kelso, Clarrie, the Butcher
Catherine Campbell, Cora, the Bootmaker
Andrew Turner, Erroll
Jamie Moffatt, Hatter
Jolant Kudra, White Rabbit
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