Crossfire

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Event Crossfire
Venue Flinders University, Drama Centre, Bedford Park, SA
First Date October 1977
Last Date 6 November 1977
Dates Estimated No
Status Unknown
World Premiere No
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
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Guthrie Worby Director
Jennifer Compton Playwright
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
Australian Drama Project (UQ) Key CROSSFIJC
Programme South Australia Performing Arts Collection
Event Identifier 117342
Dataset AusStage