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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Close to the Bone
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Notes

  • 'This play with songs and music is written for school and community groups and was devised in collaboration with the EORA Centre's Aboriginal Performing Arts students.' (ERGM Associates website, http://www.rgm.com.au/nm_lit.html)
  • Dedication: In memory of Leo Coe and Huw Davies.

Production Details

  • First produced at the EORA Centre, Redfern, Sydney, 24 September 1991.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1991 .
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Typescript at the Australian Script Cemtre.
    • Paddington, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 1994 .
      Extent: x, [vi], 63p.p.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Introduction by Mark (Peacock) Leon on the removal of Aboriginal children from their families.
      ISBN: 0868193895
      Series: Currency Plays Currency Press (publisher), series - publisher

Works about this Work

Aboriginal Theatre John McCallum , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Belonging : Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century 2009; (p. 301-325)
Kevin Gilbert's The Cherry Pickers, written in 1968, before the ocker New Wave started, anticipated many of the issues that were to be raised in the debates over identity poitics in the 1980s. Originally workshopped at the Mews Theatre, Sydney, in 1971, with an all Aboriginal cast as Gilbert insisted, the play was the forerunner of a great body of work by Indigenous playwrights.
Close to the Bone 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 12 July no. 230 2000; (p. 29)

— Review of Close to the Bone Ned Manning , 1991 single work drama
Untitled 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 12 July no. 230 2000; (p. 29)

— Review of Close to the Bone Ned Manning , 1991 single work drama
Close To The Bone 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 19 May no. 51 1993; (p. 12)

— Review of Close to the Bone Ned Manning , 1991 single work drama
'An exciting new Australian musical, Close to the Bone, by Ned Manning with music and lyrics by Karen Vaughan opens at the Sydney Q Theatre on June 4.'
Close To The Bone 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 19 May no. 51 1993; (p. 12)

— Review of Close to the Bone Ned Manning , 1991 single work drama
'An exciting new Australian musical, Close to the Bone, by Ned Manning with music and lyrics by Karen Vaughan opens at the Sydney Q Theatre on June 4.'
Untitled 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 12 July no. 230 2000; (p. 29)

— Review of Close to the Bone Ned Manning , 1991 single work drama
Close to the Bone 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 12 July no. 230 2000; (p. 29)

— Review of Close to the Bone Ned Manning , 1991 single work drama
Aboriginal Theatre John McCallum , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Belonging : Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century 2009; (p. 301-325)
Kevin Gilbert's The Cherry Pickers, written in 1968, before the ocker New Wave started, anticipated many of the issues that were to be raised in the debates over identity poitics in the 1980s. Originally workshopped at the Mews Theatre, Sydney, in 1971, with an all Aboriginal cast as Gilbert insisted, the play was the forerunner of a great body of work by Indigenous playwrights.
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  • 1960s
  • 1990s
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