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Rock opera.
Childhead's remarkable life-size doll is stolen by the Black Prince Evelyn: Childhead, in company with a clown, the clown's apprentice, and an angel, searches for the doll. Childhead loses his soul and the doll is destroyed, but a new doll is formed from the smoke of the old one and Childhead's cast-off soul.
Sources include:
Cramphorne, Rex. 'Old Means, New Ways, New Vitality', The Bulletin, 6 March 1971, p.43.
'The Dawning of the Age of Rock Musicals and Pop Operas in Australia', ABC Radio National, 15 February 2015.
Production Details
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First performed at the Schonell Theatre at The University of Queensland in February 1971.
Cast included Geoffrey Rush (Long John the clown).
Other productions include NIDA at the Jane Street Theatre, Sydney.
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