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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Savage River
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'From a ramshackle hut by the water, Kingsley forages a living with his young son, Tiger. Times are tough and money in short supply, but with good humour, invention and resilience they make the best of it, bundled together as family. One night, Kingsley brings home the beguiling Jude, who unwittingly changes three lives overnight. Jude seems happy enough to enjoy Tiger and Kingsley's attention, and let history slip by. History does, though, have a habit of catching up with you. A warm, affectionate and moving story of the glimpsing of freedom and the weight of the things that shackle us.' (Publisher's blurb)

Production Details

  • First produced at SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, New South Wales by Griffin Theatre Company in a co-production with Melbourne Theatre Company and Tasmanian Theatre Company, 12 June - 18 July 2009.

    Director: Peter Evans.

    Designer: Stephen Curtis.

    Lighting Designer: Daniel Zika.

    Sound Designer: Kelly Ryall.

    Composer: Jed Kurzel.

    Cast: Ian Bliss, Travis Cardona, and Peta Sergeant.

    After opening at the Stables Theatre, the production toured to MTC Theatre, Melbourne, and Backspace Theatre, Hobart.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press ; Griffin Theatre Company , 2009 .
      Extent: 59p.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:

      • Dedication: Savage River is dedicated to Bernice Condie, an elder from Lady Barron, Flinders Island, who granted me permission to come to Big Dog Island with her and the rest of the 'Mutton Bird Gang' to witness and partake in the birding in April 2006.

        I would also like to thank the miners at Savage River and everyone on the West Coast of Tasmania who talked to me, fed me and accommodated me.

        For Mum and Dad. For everything.

      • Epigraph:

        I will go very far,

        farther than those hills,

        farther than the seas,

        close to the stars,

        to be Christ the Lord

        to give back the soul I had

        of old, when I was a child,

        ripened with legends,

        with a feathered cap

        and a wooden sword.

        Frederico Garcia Lorca

      • Includes theatre program at end of play text.
      ISBN: 9780868198576 (pbk.)
      Series: Currency Theatre Series series - publisher
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Works about this Work

Into Screen and Out of Comfort Zone Bernard Zuel , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 November 2011; (p. 15)
Mild Ride Takes a Familiar Path Steve Rodgers , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 23 June 2009; (p. 11)
— Review of Savage River Steve Rodgers , 2009 single work drama
MTC Explores Strange New Frontiers, Classic Themes Martin Ball , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 July 2009; (p. 16)
— Review of Savage River Steve Rodgers , 2009 single work drama
Untitled John Bailey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 2 August 2009; (p. 20)
— Review of Savage River Steve Rodgers , 2009 single work drama
Untitled Nicholas Pickard , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 21 June 2009; (p. 19)
— Review of Savage River Steve Rodgers , 2009 single work drama
Exploring the Darkness in the Wilderness Jason Blake , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 June 2009; (p. 16)
— Review of Savage River Steve Rodgers , 2009 single work drama
Untitled Nicholas Pickard , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 21 June 2009; (p. 19)
— Review of Savage River Steve Rodgers , 2009 single work drama
Untitled John Bailey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 2 August 2009; (p. 20)
— Review of Savage River Steve Rodgers , 2009 single work drama
MTC Explores Strange New Frontiers, Classic Themes Martin Ball , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 July 2009; (p. 16)
— Review of Savage River Steve Rodgers , 2009 single work drama
Mild Ride Takes a Familiar Path Steve Rodgers , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 23 June 2009; (p. 11)
— Review of Savage River Steve Rodgers , 2009 single work drama
The Ripple Effect Elissa Blake , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 May 2009; (p. 11)
Into Screen and Out of Comfort Zone Bernard Zuel , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 November 2011; (p. 15)
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