Spitting Chips

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Event Spitting Chips
Venue The Rocks Theatre, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
First Date 25 October 1989
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Part of a Tour Yes
Description Spitting Chips looks at "coping with death, grief and inexorable loss of independence that comes with old age".
A teenage girl (Spud) dealing with the problems of growing up, coping with her mother's death and of relating to her father.
Originally written as a TIE production.
"...it is only when she meets May, an old woman confined to a wheelchair, that Spud is helped to face her anger and resolve her ever-simmering conflict with her father" (Ann Nugent, on a 1994 production of the play).
Description Source Reviewer's Opinion
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Theatre in Education
Subjects Grief
Physical Disability
Self-examination
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Di Emry Actor
Mic Gruchy Actor
Heather Pearson Actor
Martin Reefman Actor
Michael Stanley Composer
Nici Wood Director
Peta Murray Playwright
Resources
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information Touring schools around NSW
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record October 1989
Book John McCallum, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2009
Event Identifier 2005
Dataset AusStage