Albert Black

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Event Albert Black
Venue Basement Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand
First Date 29 July 2014
Last Date 2 August 2014
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Based on Redmer Yska's 'All Shook Up: The Flash Bodgie and Rise of the NZ Teenager in the 1950s. "Based on actual characters and events, Albert Black is a new play chronicling the fiery emergence of New Zealand's first teenagers. It's a Kiwi Rebel Without a Cause, set amongst - as one newspaper described it at the time - "a wasteland of warring juveniles, delinquents, teenage sex, no parental supervision, all night-drives, blaring jukeboxes - even a cult built around the banned books of Mickey Spillane." Vivid as a comic book, the play follows Belfast immigrant Albert Black - a frowned on Bod
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Subjects 1950s
Crime
Teenagers
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Jackson Bliss-McCauley Actor
Seamus Ford Actor
Sophia Johnson Actor
Abigail Laurent Actor
Rachel Nicholls Actor
Claudia Nixon Actor
Preston O'Brien Actor
Ruby Payne Actor
Ashley Rayes Actor
Vanderal Talagi Actor
Lane Twigden Actor
Dan Veint Actor
Devon Webb Actor
Courtney Yanez Actor
Seamus Ford Co-Producer
Peter Larsen Co-Producer
Charlie Baptist Costume Designer
Jarrod Martin Director
Tom Mannion Graphic Designer Image Design
Khalid Parkar Lighting Designer
Peter Larsen Playwright
Kenah Trusewich Set Designer
Eliza Josephson-Rutter Stage Manager
Works
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality New Zealand
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 207295