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Adaptation of
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1955
single work
drama
First known date:
1996
Issue Details:
First known date:
1996...
1996
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
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An operatic adaptation of the Australian drama telling of Roo and Barney, Queensland canecutters who for sixteen years have spent the off-season in Sydney with their girlfriends. Each summer Barney ritualistically presents his girl Olive, a barmaid with a kewpie doll. But the seventeenth summer is different; time has begun to take its toll. The themes of faded dreams, idealism, disillusionment and the determination to live bring out a quintessential Australian boisterous flavour while portraying what happens when the values of the outback hero conflict with urban domesticity.
Notes
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Commissioned by the Victorian State Opera. Programme with libretto available.
Production Details
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First produced at the Playhouse, Victorian Arts Centre, 19 October 1996 as part of the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts. Directed by Richard Wherrett. Composed by Richard Mills. Libretto by Peter Goldsworthy.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Where Is the Great Australian Opera?
2018
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 17 August 2018;'In 1986, the Adelaide Festival staged an operatic adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning writer Patrick White’s 1957 novel Voss, a pivotal work in the Australian literary canon. The opera, with music by a leading figure of the classical music avant-garde, Richard Meale, and libretto by acclaimed novelist and poet, David Malouf, was conceived in the period leading up to the Bicentennial celebrations in 1988. It certainly tapped into the zeitgeist.' (Introduction)
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Dramatic Punt on Old Tote
2013
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— Appears in: The Australian , 8 March 2013; (p. 13) -
Theatre Cues Stage Family's Brief Reunion
2012
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29 February 2012; (p. 3) -
'A Comfortable Society' : The 1950s and Opera in Australia
2004
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criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 45 2004; (p. 10-29) -
Lively Art, Dismal Science : A Century of Queensland Playwriting
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 200-213)
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Bel Canto Strine
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , November vol. 6 no. 9 1996; (p. 59-60)
— Review of Corrugation Road 1996 single work musical theatre ; Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1996 single work musical theatre -
Firm Foundations Aid Doll's Journey
1996
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 October 1996; (p. 12)
— Review of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1996 single work musical theatre -
Firm Foundations Aid Doll's Journey
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 October 1996; (p. 12)
— Review of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1996 single work musical theatre -
Doll Dressed Up, Somewhere to Go
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 21 October 1996; (p. B7)
— Review of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1996 single work musical theatre -
Doll Dressed Up, Somewhere to Go
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 21 October 1996; (p. B7)
— Review of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1996 single work musical theatre -
'A Comfortable Society' : The 1950s and Opera in Australia
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 45 2004; (p. 10-29) -
Theatre Cues Stage Family's Brief Reunion
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29 February 2012; (p. 3) -
Lively Art, Dismal Science : A Century of Queensland Playwriting
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 200-213) -
Dramatic Punt on Old Tote
2013
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column
— Appears in: The Australian , 8 March 2013; (p. 13) -
'Doll' Resurrected as Opera
1995
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 November 1995; (p. 16)
Awards
- 2012 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards — Production : Theatre - Companies For 'A Belvoir production presented by MTC'.
Last amended 3 Mar 2015 10:12:10
Subjects:
- Urban,
- Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,
Settings:
- 1950s
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