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Event

Stiffs

Venue

Lion Theatre, Adelaide, SA

Umbrella Event

In The Raw

First Date

6 February 1993

Opening Date

6 February 1993

Last Date

6 March 1993

Dates Estimated

Status

Professional

World Premiere

Yes

Description

Stiffs is outrageous, not just for its four letter word abuse, drug-addict farce, or basic sexual/mortuary humour, but for its splintered, schizoid characters and dialogue that breaks all the rules of stagecraft.

Description Source

Reviewer's Opinion

Primary Genre

Theatre - Spoken Word

Secondary Genre

Comedy

Organisations

State Theatre Company of South Australia, Presenting Company
State Theatre Company of South Australia, Production Company

Contributors

Name	Function	Notes
Colleen Cross	Actor	Stella
Sally Hildyard	Actor	Dawn
Audine Leith	Actor	Mavis
Carmel McGlone	Actor	Angel
Phil Spruce	Actor	Lester
Marijana Jevremov	Assistant Stage Manager
Ian McDonald	Composer
Shaun Gurton	Designer
Simon Phillips	Director
Keith Tucker	Lighting Designer
Karin Mainwaring	Playwright
Shelley Lush	Stage Manager
Stephen Martin	Technician

Resources

Review: David Ross, DB Magazine, 17 February 1993
Review: John Edge, Stiffs, tiffs and SNAGs, The Bulletin with Newsweek, 16 March 1993
Review: Matt Byrne, City Messenger, 17 February 1993
Review: Murray Bramwell, The Adelaide Review, March 1993
Review: Peter Goers, Sunday Mail, 15 February 1993
Review: Peter Ward, The Australian, 12 February 1993
Review: Tim Lloyd, The Advertiser, 8 February 1993

Works

Stiffs

Text Nationality

Australia

Production Nationality

Australia

Event Status

Completed

Data Source

Source	Description
Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record	March 1993
Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record	February 1993
Programme

Event Identifier

16812

Dataset

AusStage