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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 New Babylon
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'Take a cruise to the other side of the apocalypse!

'A collection of some of the world’s wealthiest ‘preppers’ are cruising to New Babylon to escape climate catastrophe. If environmental cataclysm is getting you down, join us on board!

'All is not necessarily what it may seem on this voyage to the promised land, but remember whatever happens: we’re all in this together!'

Source: Brown's Mart.

Exhibitions

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Affiliation Notes

  • Preppers and Survivalism in the AustLit Database

    This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:

    1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
    2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat

    • A range of activities not necessarily associated with ‘prepping’ take on new significance, when they are undertaken with the express purpose of preparing for and/or surviving perceived threats, e.g., gardening, abseiling.
    • The plausibility of the threat, and the relative “reasonable-ness” of the response, don’t affect this definition. E.g., if someone is worried about climate change and climate disasters, and they respond by moving from a riverbank location in Cairns, or to a highland region of New Zealand, this makes them a prepper. If someone else is worried about brainwashing rays from outer space, and they respond by making a tinfoil hat, that makes them a prepper. 

    3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.

    As a tier one work, this particular text has been identified as adhering to all three of the prepper criteria as outlined in the project definition and thus is of particular importance as a prepper text in the AustLit database. This work is one of the few examples within an Australian context that we have identified as pertaining to prepping according to our robust definition. These texts contain at least one prepper character and are in direct conversation with prepping as a movement, subculture, ideology, and set of behaviours.
     

Production Details

  • Presented by Brown's Mart Productions and Knock-em-Down Theatre at Brown's Mart, 3-14 November 2020.

    Director: Gail Evans.

    Production postponed, but not initially cancelled, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Later rescheduled for the 2021 season.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2020
    • Fortitude Valley, Fortitude Valley - New Farm area, Brisbane - North East, Brisbane, Queensland,: Playlab , 2021 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922424358
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