Event |
Holy Day
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Venue |
Wharf 1 Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney, NSW |
First Date |
9 August 2003 |
Opening Date |
13 August 2003 |
Last Date |
27 September 2003 |
Dates Estimated |
No |
Status |
Professional |
World Premiere |
No |
Description |
Australia. The mid-19th century. Three men arrive at a halfway house run by the hardened Nora and her adopted daughter, Obedience. Soon after, the missionary's wife claims the local Aborigines have murdered her husband and stolen her infant daughter. |
Description Source |
Other |
Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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Secondary Genre |
Drama
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Organisations |
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Contributors |
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Resources |
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Article:  Anna Murray, Currents, August 2003, 5
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Article:  Bron Sibree, The Canberra Times, 15 July 2003, 9
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Article:  Colin Rose, Hot tickets, Sun Herald, 10 August 2003, 5
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Book:  Hilary Glow, Power Plays: Australian Theatre and the Public Agenda, Currency Press, Sydney, 2007
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Book:  Joanne Tompkins, Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre, Palgrave, MacMillan, Basingstoke, New York, 2006
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Book:  Sydney Theatre Company 2003 Brochure, Marion Roubos-Bennett Collection, 2002
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Review:  Bryce Hallett, Bovell's bleak day of reckoning casts a hard and haunting spell, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 2003, 12
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Review:  Colin Rose, White blight, Sun Herald, 17 August 2003, 8
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Review:  John McCallum, Disquieting production opens secret, savage past, The Australian, 15 August 2003, 14
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Review:  Mark Naglazas, Wholly hell, The West Australian, 27 August 2003
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Works |
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Production Nationality |
Australia
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Event Status |
Completed
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Data Source |
Source |
Description |
Programme |
PROMPT Collection. National Library of Australia |
Brochure |
Season Brochure STC 2003 |
Marion Roubos-Bennett Collection |
STC brochure |
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Event Identifier
| 24858 |
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