Crossfire

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Event Crossfire
Venue Darwin, Darwin, NT
First Date 2 June 1979
Last Date 16 June 1979
Dates Estimated No
Status Amateur
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
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Jocelyn Brown Actor Jane Onslow / Janie
Eve Buckley Actor Mim Blackwell
Kathleen Clothier Actor Rose Perry
Tom Pauling Actor Samuel Onslow / Sam
Kevin Squires Actor Lam Lambert / Tom
Esther Trewarden Actor Cilla Onslow
Peter Beaumont Assistant Stage Manager
Ted Giblin Assistant Stage Manager
David Molesworth Assistant Stage Manager
Robert Kimber Director
Jennifer Compton Playwright
Louise Inglis Singer Folk Singer
Sandy Williams Singer Folk Singer
Colin Jacobus Stage Manager
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
Magazine Theatre Australia, May 1979, 42
Book Performing Arts Year Book of Australia 1979
Event Identifier 117343
Dataset AusStage