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y separately published work icon The Turquoise Elephant single work   drama  
First known date: 2015 Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 The Turquoise Elephant
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The Turquoise Elephant is a bitingly-funny absurdist work, depicting the chaos of a future world rapidly succumbing to climate change. As the environmental disaster unfolds, three generations of women from a privileged political family watch on - from their hermetically sealed, temperature controlled home. But just how safe are they? It's a play about contrasts: grotesque privilege and dispossession, sanity and insanity, hope and fatalism.

Source: ABC Radio National. Interview with Stephen Carleton available here.

Exhibitions

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Production Details

  • Presented by Griffith Theatre Company. Performed at SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross : 24 October - 26 November 2016.

    Director: Gale Edwards

    Set Designer: Brian Thomson

    Costume Designer: Emma Vine

    Lighting & AV Designer: Verity Hampson

    Associate Lighting Designer: Daniel Barber

    Sound Designer: Jeremy Silver

    Stage Manager: Karina McKenzie

    Cast: Catherine Davies, Maggie Dence, Julian Garner, Belinda Giblin, and Olivia Rose.


    Produced at Brown's Mart Theatre, Darwin City, 8-19 May 2018.

    Director: Gail Evans.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2016 .
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      Extent: 94p.
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      • Published: 1st October 2016
      ISBN: 9781925005745

Works about this Work

Laughing and Crying : Absurdist Theatre, Science and Climate Crisis Oliver Gough , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Science Write Now , August no. 7 2022;

'Rapidly rising sea levels and temperatures, erratic and severe weather: we have made nature uncanny, broken and unpredictable. In his book Dark Ecology, eco-critical philosopher Tim Morton describes global warming as a “wicked problem for which time is running out, for which there is no central authority; those seeking the solution are also creating it” (37). Our modern plot has dark irony and repetition, paradox and illogic. The Anthropocene is absurdist.' (Introduction)

The End Is Nigh so All That Remains to Be Done Is to Enjoy It John McCallum , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 24 October 2016; (p. 14)

— Review of The Turquoise Elephant Stephen Carleton , 2015 single work drama
Theatre Tackles Climate Change Elissa Blake , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 October 2016; (p. 11)

— Review of The Turquoise Elephant Stephen Carleton , 2015 single work drama
Theatre Tackles Climate Change Elissa Blake , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 October 2016; (p. 11)

— Review of The Turquoise Elephant Stephen Carleton , 2015 single work drama
The End Is Nigh so All That Remains to Be Done Is to Enjoy It John McCallum , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 24 October 2016; (p. 14)

— Review of The Turquoise Elephant Stephen Carleton , 2015 single work drama
Laughing and Crying : Absurdist Theatre, Science and Climate Crisis Oliver Gough , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Science Write Now , August no. 7 2022;

'Rapidly rising sea levels and temperatures, erratic and severe weather: we have made nature uncanny, broken and unpredictable. In his book Dark Ecology, eco-critical philosopher Tim Morton describes global warming as a “wicked problem for which time is running out, for which there is no central authority; those seeking the solution are also creating it” (37). Our modern plot has dark irony and repetition, paradox and illogic. The Anthropocene is absurdist.' (Introduction)

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