 Event |
The Kid
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| Venue |
Newcastle College of Advanced Education, Newcastle, NSW |
| First Date |
30 May 1984 |
| Opening Date |
30 May 1984 |
| Last Date |
9 June 1984 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Amateur |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
The play takes a nihilistic, despairing look at what the author sees as today's lost generation of youth, jobless, deprived, fighting tooth and claw to fend for themselves but not without loving and caring.
Donald an assistant in a bookshop is having a coffee in a cafe one evening when Snake and her brothers Aspro and Dean turn up. The siblings are on their way to Sydney to get compensation money for an accident that Aspro was in - the accident has left him slighty confused and somewhat incontinent. He is called Aspro because of the number he used to eat. Snake got her nickname after as a young girl she was forced by her mother to have sex with a man and she said that he had a "snake". Dean takes a shine to Donald and urges him to come with them but he declines. Next day when he is at work in the bookshop the siblings turn up and this time Dean does persuade Donald to come with them. They are going to stay with an aunt but when they arrive they find that she has died and that a stranger is living in her house. This woman has just been told by her boyfriend to move out and as revenge she gives them the television, record player and records. The foursome rent an appartment. Aspro and Snake go to try and get the money but are given the run around by the various departments. Donald is afraid of sex and he and Dean end up being frustrated with each other. One of the tennants at the block where they are living is Desiree she distibutes Christian literature for her abusive father. She agrees to put on a slide show about the end of the world for Dean. Due to a loophole Aspro cannot have any compensation - he is becoming steadily more ill. During the slide show Desiree's father arrives and takes her away. Aspro starts coughing up blood and is rushed to hospital.Donald decides to leave. Dean goes to Desiree's flat and finds her bound and beaten in a wardrobe. Dean attacks her father and possibly kills him. Snake comes back from hospital Aspro has died she packs and leaves. |
| Description Source |
Reviewer's Opinion |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
One Act Plays
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| Subjects |
Family
Youth Issues
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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 |
| Newspaper |
Records held by the Freewheels Theatre Company in Newcastle, NSW |
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| Data Set |
AusStage |
| Event Identifier |
61629 |
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