Spitting Chips

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Event Spitting Chips
Venue Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon, ACT
First Date 21 November 1992
Opening Date 21 November 1992
Last Date 5 December 1992
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional Cooperative
World Premiere No
Description The centre of the play is Spud, she's lost her mother and now lives with her dad Gary who is more and more busy with work and a new relationship...Spud craves attention from her father, needing to talk and discuss her mother's death.
Originally written as a TIE production.
"...it is only when she meets May, an old woman confined to a wheelchair, that Spud is helped to face her anger and resolve her ever-simmering conflict with her father" (Ann Nugent, on a 1994 production of the play).
Description Source Reviewer's Opinion
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Theatre in Education
Subjects Grief
Physical Disability
Self-examination
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
David Branson Actor
Mary Brown Actor
Ken Spiteri Actor
Stella Wilkie Actor
Stephen Champion Director
Peta Murray Playwright
Resources
Works
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record November, 1992
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 17534