Prime Time

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Event Prime Time
Venue Boronia Technical School, Boronia, VIC
Umbrella Event Victorian Youth Theatre Association (VYTA) Drama Camp
First Date 26 September 1980
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Description The performance style of PRIME TIME was more actor-focused than previous Handspan works, its key imagery in striking futuristic costumes and its message conveyed through comic mime and song interspersed with live dialogue banter between the actor/characters and Technocrat Cat (TC). The adolescent heroine enticed into the world of television by TC with promises of fame and fortune, was manipulated by a money hungry media-controller until she rebelled and was thrown out. PRIME TIME was devised by final year Rusden State College students and produced and presented by Handpan Theatre for seconda
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Puppetry
Visual Theatre
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Ken Evans Designer
Paul Adkin Devisor
Carmelina di Guglielmo Devisor
Stephen Kearney Devisor
Janet Shaw Devisor
Paul Adkin Performer
Carmelina di Guglielmo Performer
Stephen Kearney Performer
Janet Shaw Performer
Resources
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web www.handspantheatre.com.au
Event Identifier 126382