 Event |
Crossing the Water
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| Venue |
The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW |
| First Date |
1 December 1988 |
| Last Date |
10 December 1988 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Unknown |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Part of a Tour |
Yes |
| Description |
"Inspired by the Marguerite Duras' novel The Lover, Crossing the Water is a highly visual performance piece, which slips from image to voice, exploring the passion that is constant in Duras' work; painful and treacherous, self-conscious and restrained. Concepts of fiction and autobiography, memory, desire and mother - daughter conflict are set against issues of cultural expectation, the stark and relentless malaise of colonial occupation and the daughter - narrator's affair with a wealthy Chinese man.
Crossing the Water is a developmental work; the first stage of a bigger project exploring notions of dispossession." |
| Description Source |
Brochure |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Resources |
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| Further Information |
Return season after being presented as part of In(ter)ventions Feminism & Performance Conference/ Festival at The Performance Space in October 1988 as well.
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record |
December 1988 |
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| Data Set |
AusStage |
| Event Identifier |
1547 |
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