Coaltown Blues
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Coaltown Blues | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Fortune Theatre Studio, Dunedin, New Zealand | ||||||||||
| First Date | 6 May 1985 | ||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||
| Status | Unknown | ||||||||||
| 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 |
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| Text Nationality | New Zealand | ||||||||||
| Production Nationality | New Zealand | ||||||||||
| Further Information | National. | ||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||
| Data Set | Theatre Aotearoa | ||||||||||
| Event Identifier | 188200 | ||||||||||
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