Event |
King of Country
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Venue |
Merlyn Theatre @ CUB Malthouse, Southbank, VIC |
First Date |
24 July 1992 |
Opening Date |
25 July 1992 |
Last Date |
15 August 1992 |
Dates Estimated |
No |
Status |
Professional |
World Premiere |
No |
Description |
Horace, Chook and Vikki, the three generations of Fowlers, have Country and Western music in their blood. But for each of them their music and their country have different meanings. Chook is lost, stranded in suburbia between the big country myths of his father, the wily old Horace, and the get-up-and-go of his daughter Vikki. It takes a family trip to the Tamworth Music Festival and a chance meeting with a long lost lover to get Chook fired up again. It takes Vikki's boyfriend Hank to remind us of the treasure we have in our own Australian Country and Western music. |
Description Source |
Programme |
Primary Genre |
Music Theatre
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Secondary Genre |
Musical
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Subjects |
Australian National Identity
Country and western music
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Organisations |
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Contributors |
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Resources |
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Article:  Stephen Carroll, Pulling at the 'ol heart things, The Age, 24 July 1992
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Book:  Adrian Kiernander, Bruce Parr, Jonathan Bollen, Men At Play: Masculinities in Australian Theatre since the 1950s, Rodopi, Amsterdam & New York, 2008
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Review:  Chris Boyd, [King of country], Financial Review, 31 July 1992, 32
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Review:  Emma Alberici, Show taps into fun, The Herald Sun, 7 August 1992, 65
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Review:  Fiona Scott-Norman, The Bulletin, 18 August 1992
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Review:  Helen Thomson, The Australian, 27 July 1992
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Review:  James Griffin, Melbourne Times, 5 August 1992
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Review:  Peter Weiniger, Life gets in the way of country, The Age, 27 July 1992
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Review:  Sonia Harford, Country boy confronts past, The Sunday Herald Sun, 9 August 1992
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Works |
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Text Nationality |
Australia
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Production Nationality |
Australia
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Event Status |
Completed
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Data Source |
Source |
Description |
Programme |
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Flyer |
Theatre Programme Collection. State Library of Victoria |
Press Release |
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Brochure |
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Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record |
July, 1992 |
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Data Reviewed By
| Robert Taylor (RobertTaylor) on 17 September 2021 |
Event Identifier
| 16672 |
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