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Mister Johnson
by Norman Rosten
adapted from Joyce Cary's novel |
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NIGERIA,
1922
Mister Johnson is a young Nigerian clerk in the British Colonial
Service. He is warm-hearted, eager, and totally irresponsible.
He loves parties, singing, dancing, and his beautiful new
wife, Bamu. But, most of all, he loves the King of England,
and all things British.
Pursued by creditors and greedy in-laws, Johnson tries -
with the aid of creative book-keeping - to help his superior
officer, Rudbeck, complete the building of a new road, which
will bring "civilisation" to his village. But, when Johnson
helps himself, things go disastrously wrong.
Gloriously funny, sad and wise, the play contrasts the richness
of West African life with the sterile formality of English
bureaucracy.
Exuberant, full of African music and dance, the production
welcomes many of the cast of Independent Theatre's landmark
production of Cry, the Beloved Country, headed by SHEDRICK
YARKPAI (Free Man of Colour) as the irrepressible,
irresistible Mister Johnson.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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Odeon
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Queen Street, Norwood |
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April
23, 24, 28, 29, 30 at 7.30pm |
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April
25 at 4.00pm |
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April
27 at 6.30pm |
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May
1 at 2.00pm and 7.30pm |
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$30
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Les Trois Dumas
by Charles Smith
author of " Free Man of Colour" |
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PARIS, 1848
All three men of the Dumas family were extraordinary. Dumas
junior created "The Lady of the Camellias". Dumas senior
created "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of
Monte Cristo". And grandfather Dumas was a black general
in Napoleon's army.
Enjoying a life of debauchery in his luxurious Parisian
chateau, the elder Dumas' passion for writing is matched only
by his passion for living - much to the horror of his prudish
son.
Negotiating a series of backstage intrigues, Dumas senior
tries to get his latest play produced, while Dumas junior
struggles to restore the family name to respectability.
Charles Smith's high-spirited jaunt through the escapades
of the Dumas family sports an array of fascinating characters
- the cross-dressing George Sand; novelist Victor Hugo; jealous,
devious theatre managers; ambitious, luscious young starlets;
and even the ghost of General Dumas!
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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Odeon
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Queen Street,
Norwood |
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July
23, 24, 28, 29, 30 at 7.30pm |
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July
25 at 4.00pm |
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July
27 at 6.30pm |
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July
31 at 2.00pm and 7.30pm |
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Some Sunny Day
by Martin Sherman
adaptor of "A Passage to India" |
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CAIRO, 1942
As war rages in the desert, and the city faces invasion by
Rommel, several highly eccentric residents at a boarding house
struggle to come to terms with love, lust, and fate in an
alien country.
There's the exotic Robin, from New Zealand (or possibly
much, much further afield); the civil servant, Horatio, besotted
with Fatima, Cairo's most famous belly dancer; Horatio's neurotic
wife, Emily, hysterically jabbing needles into a voodoo doll
of Fatima; and crazy Polish (or is she Russian?) Duchess,
desperate to get out of Egypt.
Amid the strains of Vera Lynn, Carmen Miranda
and muezzins, and with hints of reincarnation and extra-terrestrial
travel, Martin Sherman's witty comedy inhabits a world where
everyone has something to hide, and anyone may be a spy.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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Odeon
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Queen Street,
Norwood |
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November
5, 6, 10, 11, 12 at 7.30pm |
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November
7 at 4.00pm |
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November
9 at 6.30pm |
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November
13 at 2.00pm and 7.30pm |
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$30
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