Poor Boy

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Event Poor Boy
Venue Southbank Theatre, The Sumner, Southbank, VIC
First Date 21 January 2009
Opening Date 27 January 2009
Last Date 8 March 2009
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Description Jeremy Glass is an untroubled little boy until his seventh birthday, when he suddenly announces that he is really a grown man called Danny, who died some years before. How can his parents indulge his conviction that he must find his real family? And how can his eerie insistence on his true identity not resurrect painful memories for Danny's widow? Little boy lost. With songs from Tim Finn adding expressionistic commentary on the action, Matt Cameron's Poor Boy delivers a supernatural story steeped in loss, anguish and redemption.
Description Source Production Company
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Music Theatre
Subjects Death
Family
Loneliness
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Naomi Edwards Assistant Director
Chris Twyman Assistant Lighting Designer
Mathew Frank Assistant Musical Director
Emma Beaurepaire Assistant Stage Manager
Iain Aitken Designer
Simon Phillips Director
Nick Schlieper Lighting Designer
Tim Finn Music and Lyrics Librettist
Ian McDonald Musical Director
Gerry Hale Musician
Stephen Ely Musician: Guitarist
Michael Barker Performer
Linda Cropper Performer Viv
Matthew Dyktynski Performer Miles
Sara Gleeson Performer Sadie
Gulliver McGrath Performer Boy
Jack McKinnis-Pegg Performer Boy
Guy Pearce Performer Danny
Sarah Peirse Performer Ruth
Hunter Stanford Performer Boy
Greg Stone Performer Sol
Abi Tucker Performer Clare
Matt Cameron Playwright
Alyson Brown Stage Manager
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web www.mtc.com.au
Programme
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 79636