Event | The Battler | |||||||
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Venue | Adelaide, Adelaide, SA | |||||||
First Date | 1974 | |||||||
Dates Estimated | No | |||||||
Status | Professional | |||||||
World Premiere | No | |||||||
Description | The Battler-Oglive-has returned after striking it rich in Western Australia. He discovers gold in an old abandoned working and the Digger's Rest community has wealth and life for a short while. But the mine folds and the prosperity is gone, though not for the Battler-his Southern Cross mine in Western Australia comes good. He sets off for the West, and the Digger's Rest community sinks back into torpitude.
Setting: An old deserted gold field. Characters: TERRIBLE MICK, an old fossicker ANDREW, an old fossicker JACK CONROY, estate agent and auctioneer SAM CLARKE, a bullock driver WATTY |
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Description Source | Website | |||||||
Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | |||||||
Secondary Genre |
Comedy
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Text Nationality | Australia | |||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||
Further Information | Aka Digger's Rest: A Comedy in Three Acts. | |||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||
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Event Identifier | 117578 | |||||||
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