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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Crazy Brave
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'This drama tells the story of a middle class woman (Alice) who one day just disappears from her marriage. She has left the comfort of her life to work for social change, and has become part of a group called Fuck It All Up. The group's function is to disrupt public displays of capitalism with small acts of domestic terrorism. When she gets involved with a mysterious figure higher up in the socialist movement, the group careers towards a much more dangerous mission. Against this plot is the story of her ex-husband, a journalist who is preserving the ideas of a dying elder socialist statesman, cast out by the mainstream.' Source: http://australianplays.org/ (Sighted 29/06/2010).

Notes

  • Dedication: for Kerry Walker

Production Details

  • Commissioned by Playbox in 1999 and first produced by Playbox Theatre, Melbourne, at The C.U.B. Malthouse on 28 June 2000.

    Director: Bruce Myles.


    Produced at La Mama, Carlton, 4-15 July 2018.

    Director: Melanie Beddie

    Design Team: Bronwyn Pringle, Jessie Keyes, Sidney Millar

    Cast: Tom Considine, Sharon Davis, Grant Foulkes, Andrew
    Carolane, Benjamin Nichol, and Chanella Macri.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2000 .
      Extent: 53p.
      Description: illus., ports.
      Note/s:
      • Theatre program in centre pages.
      ISBN: 0868196150
      Series: Current Theatre Series Currency Press (publisher), 1983- series - publisher 'Current Theatre Series consists of Australian plays published with the program inserted and sold during theatre seasons. The aim of the series is to promote and encourage new dramatic writing and make it accessible to theatregoers and the public. The text is presented at the first day of rehearsal and does not contain changes which the author may choose to make after the play has commenced its present season - these will be incorporated into any new edition published by Currency.' Currency Press.

Works about this Work

Believing Two Things at Once Michael Gurr , 2003 single work essay
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 42 2003; (p. 3-13)
Sticking to the Facts Sparks Gurr's Imagination John Mangan , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 11 September 2002; (p. 6)
Untitled Geoffrey Milne , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 38 2001; (p. 98-101)

— Review of Crazy Brave Michael Gurr , 2000 single work drama
Work in Progress : Michael Gurr : Playwright Chris Beck (interviewer), 2000 single work interview
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 June 2000; (p. 8)
Untitled Geoffrey Milne , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 38 2001; (p. 98-101)

— Review of Crazy Brave Michael Gurr , 2000 single work drama
Sticking to the Facts Sparks Gurr's Imagination John Mangan , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 11 September 2002; (p. 6)
Believing Two Things at Once Michael Gurr , 2003 single work essay
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 42 2003; (p. 3-13)
Work in Progress : Michael Gurr : Playwright Chris Beck (interviewer), 2000 single work interview
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 June 2000; (p. 8)
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