 Event |
The Insect Play
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| Venue |
University of NSW (Kensington Campus), Kensington, NSW |
| Umbrella Event |
First Year Student Performance |
| First Date |
1967 |
| Opening Date |
1967 |
| Last Date |
1967 |
| Dates Estimated |
Yes |
| Status |
Professional Training Schools/Colleges |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
In the play, a tramp/narrator falls asleep in the woods and dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behaviour leads to a militaristic society. |
| Description Source |
Programme |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Satire
Absurdist
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Text Nationality |
Czech Republic
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Further Information |
Mr. R. Covell from the University of New South Wales assisted in this production.
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Programme |
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| Event Identifier |
153797 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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