Event |
Last Chance Gas
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| Venue |
La Mama, Carlton, VIC |
| First Date |
28 April 1994 |
| Opening Date |
28 April 1994 |
| Last Date |
15 May 1994 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional Cooperative |
| World Premiere |
Yes |
| Description |
Set in an Australia of the future, a kind of desolate cluttered Mad Max landscape where technology, language and human relationships have broken down. The use of language in this play - almost a new Australian dialect - is extraordinary. |
| Description Source |
Reviewer's Opinion |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
|
| Secondary Genre |
Drama
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| Subjects |
Language
Remote areas
Science-fiction
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Resources |
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| Works |
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| Text Nationality |
Australia
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Programme |
La Mama season |
| Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record |
April 1994 |
| Book |
John McCallum, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2009 |
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| Data Reviewed By
| Jenny Fewster (JennyFewster) on 7 December 2012 |
| Event Identifier |
23953 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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