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Resource	MovingImage: Performance Recording
Title	Last Drinks - archival recording
Creator Organisations	Melbourne Workers Theatre
Abstract/Description	A retirement party quickly turns sour after it is revealed that the retiree has actually been retrenched. An examination of workplace change during the early 1990s. Opening and closing credits. 00:41:00 Audience settles at tables, cast interact with the audience. Dialogue inaudible. 00:03:01 Show begins, indicated by actors projecting their voices. 00:52:08 Curtain call 00:53:30 Announcement from Kate Gillick, thanking people for their support of MWT and asking for people to maintain their support.
Genre	Play with Music
Subjects	Retrenchment Workers Working Life Workplace
Related Events	Last Drinks, Trades Hall New Ballroom, Carlton South , VIC, 8 September 1992 Last Drinks, Collingwood Town Hall, Collingwood, VIC, 2 September 1992 Last Drinks, Victorian Country Tour, VIC, 31 August 1992
Related Contributors	Shirley Billing David Carlin Patricia Cornelius Kate Gillick Linda Jenkin Laura Lattuada Peter Long Melissa Reeves Maryanne Sam Phil Sumner Irine Vela
Related Organisation	Melbourne Workers Theatre
Related Venues	Collingwood Town Hall, Collingwood, VIC
Date Created	1992
Catalogue ID	Melbourne Workers Theatre Digital Archive HD2
Holding Institution	Deakin University, Library
Language	English
Medium	Digital
Extent	00:55:44
Format	.mov file (4.67GB); .wmv file (452MB)
Citation	Melbourne Workers Theatre, Last Drinks - archival recording, Deakin University, Library, 1992
Resource Identifier	51457