Deadly Dollars single work   drama  
Note: The play has been developed by Rod Smith Productions, a Newcastle-based Aboriginal production company.
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Deadly Dollars
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'Meet Leeanne - a recently widowed mum in her 40s struggling to keep her family together, working full-time and paying rising debts. Meet her 17 years-old daughter Toni doing her HSC who has ambitions and dreams. And meet Toni's boyfriend Jason, an apprentice mechanic who wants to move in, wants to have everything now and spends his wages on getting all the latest things on credit.

Find out how they juggle money, life, work and relationships and get something for nothing. Interact with the cast to change the outcome when two country teenagers visiting the city, are seduced into buying a new mobile phone, but one of them ends up losing their job, car and phone! The characters are Joanne an 18 year old protagonist, her friend Lynden a 17 year old tempting her to do the wrong thing, and Joanne's uncle, a sales assistant, an employer and a car salesman.' Source: www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/I (Sighted 05/12/2008).

Production Details

  • '"Deadly Dollars" would tour across the State in a 36-show run, starting in Queanbeyan to coincide with the opening of its new Fair Trading Centre on 27 October, through to Friday 5 December.' Source: www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/ (Sighted 05/12/02008). Director: Rod Smith.

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Works about this Work

More $$$ for Deadly Play 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 29 July no. 456 2009; (p. 33)

— Review of Deadly Dollars Brian Joyce , 2008 single work drama
Working to Give Our Consumers a Fair Go 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 14 January no. 442 2009; (p. 16)

— Review of Deadly Dollars Brian Joyce , 2008 single work drama
Deadly Stage Play Aims to Make Cents 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 5 November no. 438 2008; (p. 42)

— Review of Deadly Dollars Brian Joyce , 2008 single work drama
Deadly Stage Play Aims to Make Cents 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 5 November no. 438 2008; (p. 42)

— Review of Deadly Dollars Brian Joyce , 2008 single work drama
Working to Give Our Consumers a Fair Go 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 14 January no. 442 2009; (p. 16)

— Review of Deadly Dollars Brian Joyce , 2008 single work drama
More $$$ for Deadly Play 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 29 July no. 456 2009; (p. 33)

— Review of Deadly Dollars Brian Joyce , 2008 single work drama
Last amended 5 Dec 2008 12:03:15
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