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'Three strangers, intricately entwined by the events of one fateful night.
'In a small regional town, three people share their own funny, yet tragic, stories that cause their lives to converge.
'Melissa, a mother at 18, escaping a home life with an emotionally abusive father. Her daughter is now 5, and Melissa is coming to realise that history is repeating itself.
'Mick, an enthusiast for his work – tending the sewage facility and collecting the town’s garbage. Once a bright child, betrayal by a trusted adult forms his home-grown philosophy about life’s disposability.
'Barbara, a former university lecturer in art, who has made a fresh start in the town with her investment speculator husband. Settling into country life, her academic understanding of death is confronted by the reality of life and death among rural animals.
'Kangaroo is a truly inspired new work by a first time playwright based in Bathurst NSW. It weaves and dances, revealing a dark and poetic world of solitude, strength, survival and death.' (Production summary)
Production Details
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Funded by: The NSW Government through Create NSW. Ben and Martha Gelin. Partnering with: Lingua Franca, Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre and Q Theatre. Premiered in Bathurst July 9 2021.
The company for Kangaroo by Miranda Gott is:
- Madelaine Osborn – Melissa
- Duncan Wass – Mick
- Geraldine Brown – Barbara
- Miranda Gott – playwright
- Ben Turner – lighting designer
- Becky Russell – director
- Kylie Shead – producer
- Karl Shead – production designer
- Henry Simmons – video designer
- Tim Roebuck – sound designer.
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4-10 September 2021; 'Amid the gloom of an industry largely left to fend for itself through the pandemic, digital seasons of live performance are a sign of hope. By Robert Reid.'(Introduction)
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Crossing to Stream
2021
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4-10 September 2021; 'Amid the gloom of an industry largely left to fend for itself through the pandemic, digital seasons of live performance are a sign of hope. By Robert Reid.'(Introduction)
