Event | White Baptist Abba Fan | ||||||||||
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Venue | Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, VIC | ||||||||||
Umbrella Event | Melbourne Festival 1998 | ||||||||||
First Date | 20 October 1998 | ||||||||||
Opening Date | 20 October 1998 | ||||||||||
Last Date | 24 October 1998 | ||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||
Status | Professional | ||||||||||
World Premiere | No | ||||||||||
Description | 'Mum, how come you adopted me?' 'Your mother didn't want you. She put you in a cardboard box and left you in a field.' Long before she became a gay Koori opera singer, Deborah Cheetham was a white Baptist Abba fan. Born to an Aboriginal mother, she was taken away at three weeks and raised in a religious, white, middle class home. Hilarious, ironic and deeply moving, White Baptist Abba Fan follows Cheetham's remarkable journey of discovery in the face of enormous personal challenges, toward identity and fulfilment. Accompanied by the Short Black Quartet, her voice soars, shaping an emotio |
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Description Source | Brochure | ||||||||||
Primary Genre | Music Theatre | ||||||||||
Secondary Genre |
Opera
Autobiographical |
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Subjects |
Sexuality
Stolen Generation |
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Text Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 100724 | ||||||||||
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