No Worries

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Event No Worries
Venue Theatre 62, Hilton, SA
Umbrella Event Adelaide Festival of the Arts 1984
First Date 6 March 1984
Last Date 17 March 1984
Dates Estimated Yes
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Description A Magpie Theatre commission from British young people's playwright David Holman, resident in Adelaide at the time, to write a play dealing with the recent drought. Matilda Bell's Mallee parents shoot their sheep, sell up their farm and move to the city ... whereupon Matilda is so traumatised she cannot speak until a chance meeting on a beach with a Vietnamese refugee, whose story of uprooting is even more harrowing than Matilda's.
Description Source Personal Opinion
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Country
Family
Theatre in Education
Play with Music
Subjects Environment
Family
Farming
Migrants
Related Events
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Barbara Doherty Actor Mum and Buddah
Deborah Fordham Actor Matilda Bell
Barbara Peirson Actor
Michael Pope Actor Mr Walch, Terry and Lindsay
Chris Tugwell Actor Bell Kerry
David Webb Actor Narrator, David and Mr Mc Kay
David Webb Composer
Ken Wilby Designer
Christine Johnson Director
Nigel Levings Lighting Designer
David Holman Playwright
Resources
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Book David Holman. No Worries: Three Plays for Children. Sydney: Currency Press, 1989.
Cast List University of Adelaide Barr Smith Library Special Collections
Event Identifier 80730
Dataset AusStage