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'The story of a year in an Australian office, month by month.'
Source: Radio Times, 22 January 1976, p.25.
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Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 25 January 1976, from 7:05pm.
Producer: Martin Esslin.
Music: Martin Goldstein.
Cast members included Nigel Graham (Robbo), Bruce Beeby (Thomo), James Smilie (Gibbo), Trader Faulkner (Presto), Mark McManus (Jacko), Paul Bertram (Vittorio), Madi Hedd (Sundra), Geoffrey Matthews (Hendo), and Andonia Katsaros (Pammy).
(Production details via Radio Times, 22 January 1976, p.22)
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The Front Room Boys and New Wave Theatre
2017
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 February 2017;''Fucken boong'. With these words Australian theatre entered the swinging sixties – eight years after the decade began.
The two profanities capture the spirit of rebellion that characterised a new generation of theatre artists. They are the last line of Alex Buzo’s play Norm and Ahmed (1968) and the actors who uttered them were prosecuted for obscenity when it was produced in Queensland and Victoria.' (Introduction)
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The Front Room Boys and New Wave Theatre
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 February 2017;''Fucken boong'. With these words Australian theatre entered the swinging sixties – eight years after the decade began.
The two profanities capture the spirit of rebellion that characterised a new generation of theatre artists. They are the last line of Alex Buzo’s play Norm and Ahmed (1968) and the actors who uttered them were prosecuted for obscenity when it was produced in Queensland and Victoria.' (Introduction)
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