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'A humorous play for voices based on Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, that writer William Christie playfully describes as 'an imitation'. The chorus of country characters (five blokes and four sheilas) dream aloud and prepare for a day at work, or school. We're treated to a glimpse of the daily lives of these townsfolk, who mostly end up at the local pub, (with the blokes in the bar and the sheilas in the lounge) until they find their ways home - to bed, and back to sleep and dreams - where it all started. There is a sense that their colourful dreams exist in borrowed time and that the struggle to exist in such a place, in the first place, in such a manner, was a madness of sorts, a hangover from Australia's colonial past.'
Source: ABC Radio National's Airplay website, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/airplay/s1418618.htm
Sighted: 29/08/2005
Production Details
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First performed as part of the Coolac Festival on February 14, 2004.
Broadcast on ABC Radio National's Airplay on 28 August 2005.
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The Living Language of Old Australia
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 February 2004; (p. 20)
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The Living Language of Old Australia
2004
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 February 2004; (p. 20)
- New South Wales,
- ca. 1960
