Event | Crossfire | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Nimrod, Surry Hills, NSW | |||||||||||||
First Date | 28 March 1975 | |||||||||||||
Last Date | 3 May 1975 | |||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | |||||||||||||
Status | Unknown | |||||||||||||
World Premiere | Yes | |||||||||||||
Description | The life of a family in 1910 threads through the life of a modern family, the play compares the experience of four women and concludes with a young woman's perception that today's personal freedom can be as stressful for some as social convention used to be. | |||||||||||||
Description Source | Website | |||||||||||||
Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | |||||||||||||
Secondary Genre |
Drama
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Subjects |
Australian National Identity
Feminism Motherhood Women's Issues |
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Text Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||
Further Information | The play was later retitled No Man's Land.In 1974, Jennifer's play No Man's Land (re-titled Crossfire) was joint winner of the Newcastle Playwriting Competition (with John Romeril's The Floating World). Premiering in Sydney, it had a season at Downstage (directed by Elric Hooper) and was part of the Heartache and Sorrow Company's prize-winning season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1979. | |||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 101881 | |||||||||||||
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