Spitting Chips

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Event Spitting Chips
Venue Brisbane, Brisbane, QLD
First Date 1991
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Part of a Tour Yes
Description A teenage girl (Spud) dealing with the problems of growing up, coping with her mother's death and of relating to her father.
Originally written as a TIE production.
"...it is only when she meets May, an old woman confined to a wheelchair, that Spud is helped to face her anger and resolve her ever-simmering conflict with her father" (Ann Nugent, on a 1994 production of the play).
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Children's Theatre
Theatre in Education
Subjects Grief
Physical Disability
Self-examination
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Peta Murray Playwright
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information Sourced from programme for 'Cherry Orchard',Suncorp Theatre, 1991.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Programme Advertisement Dennis Wolanski Library collection at UNSW Library
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 31801