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Under Mulga Wood - A Play for Australian Voice
For two days only, William Christie's adaptation
of Dylan Thomas' Under Mulga Wood will be showing at Balgowlah
RSL, Ethel Street Seaforth.
"It's a dead still, dry season, never-never
night in the small town of Goadabuggerai; not a star for the askin',
it's tarblack as far back as the blind eye can't see and dark
as a blackfella's navel ..."
This nostalgic and at times hilarious Australian
adaptation of Dylan Thomas's famous Under Milk Wood traces one
day in the lives of a selection of characters in a small town
in the far west of NSW around the year 1960, with occasional poems
and songs. Poetic, poignant, and funny by turns, reverent and
irreverent, this remembrance of things past is destined to become
a new Australian classic.
With only a handful of local performances in the
year or so since it was written, it is currently being recorded
by the ABC and performed interstate in Melbourne and Queensland.
Tickets - $15 each
8pm Saturday 23rd April 2005
2pm Sunday 24th April 2005
Balgowlah RSL
Ethel Street, Seaforth NSW
“... a mythical yet all too real NSW country
town, with descriptions and depictions that are quintessentially
Australian” – Liz Tickner, The West Australian
“... please someone: pick up Under Mulga
Wood ... and tour it till the cows come home” –
Diana Simmonds, The Sunday Telegraph
“... a new Australian classic”
– Bob Ellis
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