 Event |
Three Women and the Sea
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| Venue |
Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand |
| First Date |
1961 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Amateur |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
… The plot can be quickly summed up: Sensitive wife is mismated with priggish ideologue who would (apparently) rather curl up with a cosy anti-bomb petition after a hard day's lecturing at the Training College. Wife seeks consolation with callow Catholic poet and quondam student of the master of the house; gets pregnant, discovers love for husband, sets boy-wonder free (he runs like a rat up a drainpipe) and settles down to hard-won mutual bliss with husband who, all along, has yearned dumbly for her behind his Newe Statesman. At obtuse anges to this geometry are a girl hobo drifting until her man gets out of jail, the life-denying but comical social-climbing sister of the adultress who has anaesthetized her erogenous zones to make her bourgeois world safe and a Roman Catholic Fisherman, natural philosopher - one of the meek hanging about to inherit the earth - with a private telephone to the deity. … |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Drama
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Text Nationality |
New Zealand
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| Production Nationality |
New Zealand
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| Further Information |
A double bill, presented with Free at Victoria University's new theatre.
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Event Identifier |
190299 |
| Dataset |
Theatre Aotearoa |
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