Happy Birthday, Wanda June
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Globe Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand | ||||||||||
| First Date | 1984 | ||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||
| Status | Amateur | ||||||||||
| World Premiere | No | ||||||||||
| Description | Written as a protest against Vietnam, Happy Birthday, Wanda June centers around the conflict in the Ryan family. Harold Ryan, a warmongering career soldier and hunter, has been lost in the Amazon for eight years. When he suddenly returns home, long after being declared legally dead, he finds his wife Penelope dating a vacuum cleaner salesman and a peacenik doctor. His twelve-year-old son Paul is deeply confused. He wants so badly to worship his father, but he swiftly realizes (along with the rest of us) that Harold is a brute… | ||||||||||
| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||
| Secondary Genre |
Drama
Satire |
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| Subjects |
Family
Vietnam War |
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| Text Nationality | United States of America | ||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||
| Data Set | Theatre Aotearoa | ||||||||||
| Event Identifier | 194067 | ||||||||||
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