The Duck Shooter single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 The Duck Shooter
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'The Duck Shooter is more than just an exploration of working class men as they attempt to navigate themselves through the unfamiliar and uncomfortable territory of grief. It is a mythic and violent struggle over a father's legacy and what it means to be a man in contemporary Australia.' http://www.statetheatre.sa.com.au (Sighted 15/07/04)

Notes

  • 'The Duck Shooter' started life as a one-act play, 'Lime-Green Jelly,' was transformed into a successful film, 'Erskineville Kings' starring Hugh Jackman and now, nine years after it was first written, is fully developed as a stage drama. The script was further developed at the Australian National Playwrights Conference in April, 2003, and presented as a staged reading by Brink Productions last year.

Production Details

  • World premiere by Brink Productions and the State Theatre Company of South Australia at The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre, 3 - 17 July, 2004. Director: Michael Hill.

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form y separately published work icon Erskineville Kings Marty Denniss , ( dir. Alan White ) Sydney : Radical Media , 1999 7895103 1999 single work film/TV

'Barky (Marty Denniss) returns to Sydney for his father’s funeral. He has been away in Queensland for more than two years while his older brother Wace (Hugh Jackman) took care of their father after a stroke. The brothers are not close and the absence has made Wace even more bitter. As they drink with their friends at a pub in Erskineville, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, the family history comes to a boil. Barky walks out, trying to avoid a fight. His one-time girlfriend Lanny (Leah Vandenberg) sends him back to face his brother, and his own demons.'

Source: Australian Screen.
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Works about this Work

Duck Season Tim Lloyd , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 21 June 2004; (p. 86)
— Review of The Duck Shooter Marty Denniss , 2004 single work drama
Young Caught in Middle of No Man's Land Nadine Williams , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 July 2004; (p. 10)
— Review of The Duck Shooter Marty Denniss , 2004 single work drama
Death of a Father Exposes the Illusions of His Sons Murray Bramwell , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 15 July 2004; (p. 14)
— Review of The Duck Shooter Marty Denniss , 2004 single work drama
Death of a Father Exposes the Illusions of His Sons Murray Bramwell , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 15 July 2004; (p. 14)
— Review of The Duck Shooter Marty Denniss , 2004 single work drama
Young Caught in Middle of No Man's Land Nadine Williams , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 July 2004; (p. 10)
— Review of The Duck Shooter Marty Denniss , 2004 single work drama
Duck Season Tim Lloyd , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 21 June 2004; (p. 86)
— Review of The Duck Shooter Marty Denniss , 2004 single work drama
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