Crossfire

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Event Crossfire
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
Subjects Australian National Identity
Feminism
Motherhood
Women's Issues
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Ken Horler Director
Jennifer Compton Playwright
Larry Eastwood Set Designer
Works
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
Data Source
Source Description
Book John McCallum, Belonging, Currency Press, Sydney, 2009
Australian Drama Project (UQ) Key NOMANSLJC
Newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 March 1975, 15
Event Identifier 101881
Dataset AusStage