In the Violet Time single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 In the Violet Time
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Twelve year-old Violet lives at 143 Union Street, Newtown, Sydney and it's 1931. She runs the streets stealing from the local Chinese grocer as the Depression bites and her Dad walks the wharfies' Hungry Mile, desperate for an income. Violet's Mum, Lenie, ekes out what she can from cleaning, and the rest. When evicted Violet's family are supported by the Unemployed Workers' Movement. This is red rag not simply to the cops, but to the burgeoning fascists. The forces of the Right are looking to make an example out of this last stand of resistance, no matter how tiny, no matter how personal the fight really is. In this battle of baton and fist, ideal and identity, who's got the most ticker? A raucous, loving and poetic story about a pivotal moment in Australian social and political history, all through a 12 year-old Newtown girl's eyes.

Source : QTIX web site (https://www.qtix.com.au/show/NPF_Violet_Time_08.aspx)

Sighted 09/01/08.

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Works about this Work

Theatre Stripped to the Bone Gillian Bramley-Moore , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 - 24 February 2008; (p. 48)

— Review of In the Violet Time Sue Smith , 2008 single work drama
Theatre Stripped to the Bone Gillian Bramley-Moore , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 - 24 February 2008; (p. 48)

— Review of In the Violet Time Sue Smith , 2008 single work drama
Last amended 2 Jul 2018 12:01:34
Subjects:
  • Newtown, Marrickville - Camperdown area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
Settings:
  • 1931
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