 Event |
Insignificance
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| Venue |
Playbox Theatre, Melbourne, VIC |
| First Date |
1 June 1983 |
| Opening Date |
1 June 1983 |
| Last Date |
10 July 1983 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
Set in a New York hotel room in 1953, Terry Johnson's play is about heroes. The playwright, who was present for the Melbourne rehearsals thanks to the British Council and the Potter Foundation, wrote that "the real question is why we make heroes for ourselves in the first place. Certainly most of them are extraordinary people, but do we enthrone them out of respect for their extraordinariness (and promptly dethrone them if they prove mere mortals after all) or is the whole business a feeble excuse for not exploring the extraordinary possibilities within ourselves?" |
| Description Source |
Programme |
| 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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| Resources |
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Article: Laurie Landray, Fantasy with a twist, The Herald, The University of Adelaide, Library Special Collections, 2 June 1983
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Article: Margaret Simons, A ray of hope in the gloom, The Age, 27 May 1983, 14
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Review: Leonard Radic, Brilliant promise stays unfulfilled, The Age, 3 June 1983, 14
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| Works |
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| Text Nationality |
England
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Programme |
Dennis Wolanski Library collection at UNSW Library |
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| Event Identifier |
30985 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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