 Event |
Dream of Sussex Downs
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| Venue |
Mercury One, Auckland, New Zealand |
| First Date |
23 May 1986 |
| Last Date |
21 June 1986 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
A self-conscious hybrid that takes its plot from Chekhov and its title from a poem of Glover's: 'I do not dream of Sussex Downs/ Or quaint old England's quaint old towns…/ I dream of what may yet be seen/ In Johnsonville or Geraldine'. Set in 1950s Wellington, Chekhov's melancholy provincial exiles have become a family of decaying Thorndonians suffering from terminal anglophilia … Colonial life is experienced as a penal interlude …paradoxically (given its dependence upon a European classic) a play about the decolonisation of the New Zealand psyche. |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Drama
Adaptation
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| Subjects |
Post-Colonialism
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| Contributors |
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| Text Nationality |
New Zealand
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| Production Nationality |
New Zealand
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| Further Information |
Adapted from Chekhov's Three Sisters. Evidently inspired by seeing Raymond Hawthorne's production of Three Sisters at Theatre Corporate in 1985.
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Set |
Theatre Aotearoa |
| Event Identifier |
185702 |
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