 Event |
Heroic Measures
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| Venue |
Merlyn Theatre @ CUB Malthouse, Southbank, VIC |
| First Date |
28 October 1991 |
| Opening Date |
28 October 1991 |
| Last Date |
16 November 1991 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
Yes |
| Description |
Josef Ginzburg, a forgotten poet, and Alexandr Shurmansky, a renowned composer, struggle amidst the violence, cruelty and fear surrounding them. It is a life, says Shurmansky, where 'so many unsaid things collect in the soul'. The playwright has borrowed freely from the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nadezhda Mandlestam. |
| Description Source |
Programme |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Drama
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| Subjects |
Artists
Russia
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Resources |
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Article: Michael Shmith, The sheer force of personality, The Age, The University of Adelaide, Library Special Collections, 26 October 1991, 9
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Review: Chris Boyd, Financial Review, 8 November 1991
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Review: Fiona Scott-Norman, Inpress, 6 November 1991
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Review: Helen Thomson, The Australian, 30 October 1991
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Review: John Larkin, The Sunday Age, 10 November 1991
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Review: Leonard Radic, The Age, 30 October 1991
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Review: Sonia Harford, The Sunday Herald Sun, 3 November 1991
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| Works |
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| Text Nationality |
Australia
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Further Information |
Performances began at 6.15pm with a 45 min interval for 4 hour running time. Playbox devoted the budgets of two shows to it reducing the season from 8 to 7
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record |
November 1991 |
| Book |
John McCallum, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2009 |
| Programme |
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| Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record |
October 1991 |
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| Data Set |
AusStage |
| Event Identifier |
16092 |
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