Ryan single work   drama   - 90 minutes
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Ryan
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'February the 3rd, 1967. A man waits alone in a prison cell in Pentridge Prison in Coburg, Victoria. Very soon, he will either be pardoned for a crime he insists he never committed, or executed for it. As the clock ticks and voices outside scream his name for pardon or life imprisonment rather than death by hanging, he suffers to see whether he shall be spared or etched into the history books as one of the darkest moments in criminal history.

'Returning to the subject of his award-winning play Remembering Ronald Ryan, Barry Dickins crafts a haunting monologue, a portrait of a man on the edge of oblivion, pulled between accepting his fate and holding onto hope. ' (Publication summary)

Production Details

  • Performed at La Mama Courthouse Theatre, Carlton, Melbourne : December 9 – 20 2015.

    Director: Daniel Lammin.

    Cast: Syd Brisbane.

    Production Designer: Nathan Burmeister.

    Sound Designer: Raya Slavin.

    Lighting Designer: Brendan Jellie.

    Stage Manager: Kevin Turner.

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Works about this Work

Hanging on Every Word of a Dead Man Talking Chris Boyd , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 December 2015; (p. 16)

— Review of Ryan Barry Dickins , 2015 single work drama
Hanging on Every Word of a Dead Man Talking Chris Boyd , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 December 2015; (p. 16)

— Review of Ryan Barry Dickins , 2015 single work drama
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