Upside Down at the Bottom of the World

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Event Upside Down at the Bottom of the World
Venue Red Shed Theatre, Adelaide, SA
First Date 14 April 1977
Last Date 24 April 1977
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description D.H. Lawrence in Australia. "The famous writer and his German wife spend six months on the New South Wales coast, brawling, squabbling and remembering England - much to the amazement of their conservative neighbours."
Winner of the Awgie for best play 1980.
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsA/allen-david.html
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Historical
Subjects Relationships
Writers
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
David Allen Director
David Allen Playwright
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information See Geoffrey Milne's Theatre Australia (Un)limited: Australian Theatre Since the 1950s (Amsterdam:Rodopi, 2004: 142-43) for information about Troupe and its beginnings in 1976 in a warehouse named the Red Shed to its move to the Town Hall in suburban Unley in early 1981.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Programme South Australia Collection
Australian Drama Project (UQ) UPSIDEDDA
Newspaper The Advertiser, 9 April 1977
Event Identifier 88787
Dataset AusStage