 Event |
Sheppey
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| Venue |
St James' Hall (1887-1961), Sydney, NSW |
| First Date |
9 December 1939 |
| Last Date |
16 December 1939 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Amateur |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
The story turns upon the delusions of a barber whose latent mental derailment takes acute form a few minutes after having learned that he had won a fortune in a sweep He becomes obsessed by desire to make everybody happy by giving his newly won wealth away and to that end takes a street walker and a pickpocket to his home Of course the immediate result is to make his own family extremely unhappy, and to convince their alarming guests that the precarious life of the highway and byway was after all the best |
| Description Source |
Reviewer's Opinion |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Comedy
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Resources |
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| Works |
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| Text Nationality |
England
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Further Information |
To night at 8 p m in St James Hall, Phillip Street the Sydney Players Club presents Sheppey The performance will be repeated next Saturday
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Newspaper |
SYDNEY PLAYERS' CLUB (1939, December 9). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 10. Retrieved December 16, 2018, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17618907 |
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| Data Set |
AusStage |
| Event Identifier |
142727 |
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