The Jetty: a play with songs from the industrial/jazz era

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Abstract

It's a frontier town in the 1920s. Copper tailings in the water. Wedge-tailed eagles circling the town tip. Aboriginal camps in the sand dunes. But progress is coming to Wangaroo.
The Jetty, stage play, first performed at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre Wollongong, as part of Merrigong Theatre Company ‘Ruff! Scripts’. Performance, 23rd July 2011, 7.30pm.
75 minute play for five performers, including 6 composed songs performed live.
This is a stage adaptation of a commissioned radio play ‘The Jetty’, which received its first publication as a radio play, and broadcast by ABC Radio National ‘Airplay’ in 2010.
Radio: Writer Catherine Fargher, Dramaturg  Hilary Bell, Composer  Phillip Johnston, Producer: Anne Wynter, Engineer: Philip Ulman
Actors: Akos Armont, Damion Hunter, Gerard Carroll, Oliver Fargher, Kevin Golsby, Sheridan Harbridge, Erica Lovell, Ashley Ricardo, Trevor Ryan, Justin Smith
Theatre: Writer Catherine Fargher, Director Catherine Fitzgerald, Dramaturg  Hilary Bell
Actors: Gerard Carroll, Aimee Horne, Jodie Kennedy, Craig Menaud and Luke Mullins.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationWollongong
PublisherMerrigong Theatre Wollongong NSW
Media of outputCD
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jul 2011

Keywords

  • Theatre
  • Australian History
  • Jazz
  • Industrial Age
  • Wallaroo
  • Engineering
  • marriage and politics
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People
  • relationship conflicts
  • Railway bridge
  • Railway workers

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