Coaltown Blues

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Event Coaltown Blues
Venue Centrepoint Dark Room, Palmerston North, New Zealand
First Date 24 April 2015
Last Date 25 April 2015
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
Chris Green Actor
Lindsey Rusling Director
Sue Windsor Musician: Pianist
Mervyn Thompson Playwright
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality New Zealand
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 205292