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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Bastard Territory
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'Russell’s ghosts were kind of at rest. He was at peace with it all, even the fact that he didn't know who his biological father was. His mother, Lois, disappeared when he was eight, leaving him to be raised by Neville, a stalwart of the no-nonsense Regional Right.

'It’s Darwin, 2001, and Russell and his partner Alistair have transformed Russell’s childhood home into the ‘Tectonic Plate’; ‘hip urban café and art gallery by day, queer cabaret dive by night’.

'When three separate events over the course of two weeks start to churn things up, the ghosts from Russell’s past begin to intrude on his present and he embarks on a quest to determine his identity.

'The search transports him back to the bohemian world of his childhood; Darwin, 1975, and beyond to his conception; PNG, 1967, where bored ex-TAA hostie, Lois, has tired of Neville’s conservatism and joined the ‘Moresby Arts Theatre’, where she soon starts courting liaisons with members of the community positioned more dangerously at its anarchic edges.

'To a soundtrack of Suzi Quatro, Shirley Bassey and Nana Mouskouri, Russell pieces together the events leading to that fateful night when his favourite Abba record was broken and everything else fell apart.' (Production summary)

Production Details

  • Performed at JUTE Theatre, Cairns : 6-21 June 2015.

    Cast: Benhur Helwend, Suellen Maunder, Peter Norton, Steven Tandy, and Ella Watson-Russell.

    Director: IIan Lawson.


    Performed at Queensland Theatre Company's Bille Brown Studio, Brisbane : 6 - 16 April 2016.

    Cast: Benhur Helwend, Suellen Maunder, Peter Norton, Steven Tandy, Ella Watson-Russell, and Lauren Jackson.

    Director: Ian Lawson.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2015
    • Fortitude Valley, Fortitude Valley - New Farm area, Brisbane - North East, Brisbane, Queensland,: Playlab , 2016 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781921390975, 1921390972
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