y separately published work icon Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera single work   musical theatre  
Note: Music by Terence Clarke and Charles Colman
Issue Details: First known date: 1971... 1971 Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera
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form y separately published work icon Flash Jim Vaux Ron Blair , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1975 7952992 1975 single work radio play

'This rogue's comedy with ballads tells the saga of James Hardy Vaux, an English petty thief who was three times transported to New South Wales. Highly successful in Australia, this play gives a vivid picture of the early history of a continent settled by the inmates of the prisons of Hogarth's London.'

Source: Radio Times, 4 December 1975, p.31.

Production Details

  • First produced at the Nimrod Street Theatre, Sydney, 28 April 1971. Toured Australia in 1971 and was later produced at the Hampstead Theatre Club, London.

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First known date: 1971
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Works about this Work

Untitled R. Aldrich , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: Campaign , no. 83 1982; (p. 39)
— Review of Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera Ron Blair , 1971 single work musical theatre
Stone the Crows, Jim Vaux Would Be Chuffed at This Hit Lucy Wagner , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , issue details unknown - review held AUSTLIT 1982;
— Review of Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera Ron Blair , 1971 single work musical theatre
Untitled D. Thorpe , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 21-28 December 1973; (p. 321)
— Review of Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera Ron Blair , 1971 single work musical theatre
Untitled Virginia Patricia Duigan , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: National Times , 24-29 December 1973; (p. 15)
— Review of Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera Ron Blair , 1971 single work musical theatre
The Very Stews of Life Brian Hoad , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 14 October vol. 94 no. 4825 1972; (p. 45)
— Review of Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera Ron Blair , 1971 single work musical theatre
Team Triumphs Brian Hoad , 1971 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 8 May vol. 93 no. 4754 1971; (p. 46-47)
— Review of Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera Ron Blair , 1971 single work musical theatre
Untitled Katharine Brisbane , 1971 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 8 May 1971; (p. 19)
— Review of Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera Ron Blair , 1971 single work musical theatre
The Very Stews of Life Brian Hoad , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 14 October vol. 94 no. 4825 1972; (p. 45)
— Review of Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera Ron Blair , 1971 single work musical theatre
Untitled Virginia Patricia Duigan , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: National Times , 24-29 December 1973; (p. 15)
— Review of Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera Ron Blair , 1971 single work musical theatre
Untitled D. Thorpe , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 21-28 December 1973; (p. 321)
— Review of Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera Ron Blair , 1971 single work musical theatre
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