Event |
A Bit of Black, a Bit of Red and a Bit of White
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Venue |
BHP Steelworks, Mayfield North, NSW |
Umbrella Event |
Molten Arts Project, Newcastle, 1999 |
First Date |
7 June 1999 |
Opening Date |
7 June 1999 |
Last Date |
25 July 1999 |
Dates Estimated |
No |
Status |
Professional |
World Premiere |
No |
Description |
Developed from material collected and edited by P. P. Cranney from Broken Hill Proprietary employee interviews in the period of time leading up to the closure of the Broken Hill Proprietary steelworks in Newcastle, New South Wales. |
Description Source |
Personal Opinion |
Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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Secondary Genre |
Documentary Drama
Verbatim Theatre
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Subjects |
Working Life
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Organisations |
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Contributors |
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Text Nationality |
Australia
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Production Nationality |
Australia
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Further Information |
A result of the Molten Arts Project. Over two months, three actors performed a number of extracts from employee interviews and writings as a twenty-minute presentation in lunchrooms, on the workplace floor and in meeting rooms across the Broken Hill Proprietary Newcastle steelworks. In a direct presentational style the actors performed short pieces reflecting on such topics as an employee's first
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Event Status |
Completed
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Data Source |
Source |
Description |
Correspondence |
Records held by the Workers Cultural Action Committee |
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Event Identifier
| 61450 |
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