Event | The Floating World | ||||||||||
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Venue | The Playhouse, Civic Square, ACT | ||||||||||
Umbrella Event | Festival of Australian Drama | ||||||||||
First Date | 18 June 1982 | ||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||
Status | Professional | ||||||||||
World Premiere | No | ||||||||||
Description | Investigating the ambivalent feelings behind the camaraderie of international trade relations, this is a rich ironic study of Australian xenophobia. A wildly inventive and comic study of the disintegration of an Australian ex-POW during a pleasure cruise to Japan. | ||||||||||
Description Source | Other | ||||||||||
Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||
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Comedy
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Subjects |
Japan
Prisoners Race relations Racial discrimination Racism Ships Trade War World War 2 |
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Text Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 95902 | ||||||||||
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