Coaltown Blues

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Event Coaltown Blues
Venue Maidment Theatre, Auckland CBD, New Zealand
First Date 1984
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Part of a Tour Yes
Description In this intensely personal work, Mervyn Thompson returns to his childhood in a West Coast mining township. He relives the poverty of his working class background, his father's mounting violence and the disintegration of his mother's health and happiness into insanity and suicide.
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Historical
Autobiographical
Solo
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Raewyn Gwilliam Designer
Priscilla Pitts Designer
Ron Rodger Director
Paul McInnes Lighting Designer
Mervyn Thompson Performer
Mervyn Thompson Playwright
Neville Carson Set and/or Property Maker
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality New Zealand
Further Information Premiere Tour to Centrepoint Theatre, Palmerston North 1984.Centrepoint Theatre 11 - 30 September 1984; Kerikeri Memorial Hall, 21 September.
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 186002