Happy With Half Your Life

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Event Happy With Half Your Life
Venue Darlinghurst Theatre, Potts Point, NSW
First Date 8 December 2004
Opening Date 8 December 2004
Last Date 11 December 2004
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional Cooperative
World Premiere No
Description When 21 year old Jess heads to London hungry for adventure, the last thing she expects to be doing is looking after old ladies?She is embarking on life; these women are coming to the end of theirs?What could they possibly have in common?



Poignant and funny, Happy With Half Your Life follows Jess? roller coaster rite of passage as she cares for a concentration camp survivor, a celebrated Hampstead artist, an Alzheimer?s sufferer and Irish mother of eleven. With great passion and vitality, Vanessa O?Neill runs the gamut of emotions as she brings this gallery of very different character
Description Source Other
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Vanessa O'Neill Actor
Sian Newey Director
Fiona Pulford Director
Sian Newey Dramaturg/e
Fiona Pulford Dramaturg/e
Vanessa O'Neill Playwright
Mel Flanagan Producer
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Newspaper SMH Metro November 26 - December 2, 2004
Web
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 65326