Event | After Dinner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Wharf 1 Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney, NSW | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Date | 15 January 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opening Date | 20 January 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Date | 7 March 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status | Professional | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Premiere | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | After Dinner is a poignant and hilarious collision of lonely hearts, sex, friendship and Friday night drinks.
A suburban pub, circa 1987. Paula, Monika and Dympie are going to paint the town red... or maybe just a deep shade of embarrassment. Paula’s frocked up, it’s Monika’s first night out in years and Dympie just wants a table with a good view of the band. Semi-eligible blokes Gordon and Stephen are shaking off the office and revealing their own peccadillos while they’re at it. Between the Chardonnay, the oysters and the odd Valium things are bound to loosen up! Playwright Andrew Bovell is one of Australia’s finest writers. In After Dinner, his first play from 1988, he exhibits the sure hand of a gifted wordsmith. His beautifully observed characters and wincingly funny one-liners reveal the timeless trials of friendship and singledom, as well as being a delicious reminder of the less than timeless trials of perms and skinny ties that were the 1980s. |
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Description Source | Website | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Text Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 109442 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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