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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 A Commercial Farce
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'Bill drives a clapped out '68 Jag and wears second hand clothes. He's an experienced theatre director on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There's less than 24 hours until the curtains go up and this production is unraveling...fast. Enter Jules, the latest fresh-faced television star of Murder Squad. He's the name that's going to sell the tickets. Without him the show is doomed. But when Jules fails to perform the simplest of acting tasks, Bill's raison d'etre becomes teaching his young pupil the very meaning of farce.'

Source: Malthouse Theatre Company website, www.malthousetheatre.com.au (Sighted 04/06/2009)

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Production Details

  • First produced at the Beckett Theatre by Malthouse Theatre, 6 June 2009. Directed by Aidan Fennessy.

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First known date: 2009
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Works about this Work

Farce Delivers Knock-Out Performance Jacqueline Williams , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 April 2011; (p. 8)
Lessons in Comedy Yield Plenty of Mirth Glenn Burns , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 April 2011; (p. 28)
— Review of A Commercial Farce Peter Houghton , 2009 single work drama
It's a Funny Old Life Duncan Driver , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 March 2011; (p. 15-16)
Theatrical High-Wire Act Played for Tragi-Comic Laughs Jason Blake , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 March 2011; (p. 9)
— Review of A Commercial Farce Peter Houghton , 2009 single work drama
Untitled Elissa Blake , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 6 March 2011; (p. 13)
— Review of A Commercial Farce Peter Houghton , 2009 single work drama
Acute Diagnosis of Art's Ills Calls for Livelier Treatment Cameron Woodhead , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 June 2009; (p. 19)
— Review of A Commercial Farce Peter Houghton , 2009 single work drama
Theatre John Bailey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 21 June 2009; (p. 20)
— Review of A Commercial Farce Peter Houghton , 2009 single work drama ; Tom the Loneliest Duncan Luke , Julian Crotti , 2009 single work drama
Playwright and Performer Whose Foolery Fits the Bill Alison Croggon , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 12 June 2009; (p. 10)
— Review of A Commercial Farce Peter Houghton , 2009 single work drama
Untitled Elissa Blake , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 6 March 2011; (p. 13)
— Review of A Commercial Farce Peter Houghton , 2009 single work drama
Theatrical High-Wire Act Played for Tragi-Comic Laughs Jason Blake , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 March 2011; (p. 9)
— Review of A Commercial Farce Peter Houghton , 2009 single work drama
A Farce to Be Reckoned With Robin Usher , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 2 June 2009; (p. 17)
It's a Funny Old Life Duncan Driver , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 March 2011; (p. 15-16)
Farce Delivers Knock-Out Performance Jacqueline Williams , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 April 2011; (p. 8)
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