Coaltown Blues

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Event Coaltown Blues
Venue Bats Theatre Company, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand
First Date 18 October 1995
Last Date 4 November 1995
Dates Estimated No
Status Unknown
World Premiere No
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
Solo
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Gareth McMillan Actor
Julie Edwards Director
Mervyn Thompson Playwright
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality New Zealand
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 186443