National Interest single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 2012 2012 FOS http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/theatre/events/1797/national-interest The Age 28 Sept 2011

Abstract

'Aidan Fennessy, a member of MTC's Season 2012 Programming Team and an MTC Associate Director since 2008, charts the story of his extended family, the Stewarts, whose twenty-one-year-old son Tony Stewart was one of the Balibo Five. This is one of Australia's most controversial issues, and Fennessy explores it through the eyes of those to whom justice matters the most. Julia Blake stars as Tony Stewart's mother.

On 16 October 1975, five Australian-based journalists, Greg Shackleton, Tony Stewart, Gary Cunningham, Malcolm Rennie and Brian Peters, were murdered on assignment in the town of Balibo, East Timor, at the hands of the Indonesian military. The journalists had been sent by their networks to investigate decolonisation in East Timor and the threat of invasion by neighbouring Indonesia.

It took one month for the parents of the journalists to learn that their children were missing and another month to confirm that they were killed. After two official inquiries (1999 and 2007), those responsible for the murder of the Balibo Five have still not been prosecuted.' (Source : http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/theatre/events /1797/national-interest )

Production Details

  • Performed at
    The Arts Centre
    Fairfax Studio
    100 St Kilda Rd Melbourne 3004
    Date 06 Jun 2012-21 Jul 2012
    Director: Aidan Fennessy
    Cast: Julia Blake and Stuart Halusz

Publication Details of Earliest Known Version

Works about this Work

National Interest, Personal Cost Victoria Laurie , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 April 2012;
Home, Where the Pain Persists Victoria Laurie , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 May 2012;

— Review of National Interest Aidan Fennessy 2012 single work drama ;
One Family's Battle with Picking at the Scars Raymond Gill , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 June 2012;

— Review of National Interest Aidan Fennessy 2012 single work drama ;
Skilful Melding of Balibo Fact and Fiction Elly Varrenti , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 June 2012;

— Review of National Interest Aidan Fennessy 2012 single work drama ;
MTC Rolls out Big Guns for Season Robin Usher , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 28 September 2011;
Skilful Melding of Balibo Fact and Fiction Elly Varrenti , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 June 2012;

— Review of National Interest Aidan Fennessy 2012 single work drama ;
One Family's Battle with Picking at the Scars Raymond Gill , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 June 2012;

— Review of National Interest Aidan Fennessy 2012 single work drama ;
Home, Where the Pain Persists Victoria Laurie , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 May 2012;

— Review of National Interest Aidan Fennessy 2012 single work drama ;
National Interest, Personal Cost Victoria Laurie , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 April 2012;
MTC Rolls out Big Guns for Season Robin Usher , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 28 September 2011;
Subjects:
  • Journalists
  • Murder & manslaughter
  • Justice
  • Balibo
  • 1975