Coaltown Blues

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Event Coaltown Blues
Venue Circa Theatre (1975-1994), Wellington Central, New Zealand
First Date 14 February 1985
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Part of a Tour Yes
Description In this intensely personal work, Mervyn Thompson returns to his childhood in a West Coast mining township. He relives the poverty of his working class background, his father's mounting violence and the disintegration of his mother's health and happiness into insanity and suicide.
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Historical
Autobiographical
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Raewyn Gwilliam Designer
Priscilla Pitts Designer
Ron Rodger Director
Paul McInnes Lighting Designer
Mervyn Thompson Performer
Mervyn Thompson Playwright
Neville Carson Set and/or Property Maker
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality New Zealand
Further Information Guest production.
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 185914