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Dreaming Transportation single work   drama  
Alternative title: Dreaming Transportation : Voice Portraits of the First Women of White Settlement at Port Jackson
Adaptation of Botany Bay Document : A Poetic History of the Women of Botany Bay Jordie Albiston , 1996 selected work poetry
Note: Librettist (and author of source material): Jordie Albiston; composer: Andree Greenwell.
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Dreaming Transportation
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'Dreaming Transportation is a contemporary music theatre work that reveals the little documented experience of colonised European women in Australia. Popular, folk, spoken and operatic voices combine with elements of contemporary performance and gallery exhibition to create rich vocal portraits of ordinary and extraordinary women.'

Source: Promotional blurb, Sydney Festival 2003.

Notes

  • Inspired by Jodie Albiston's Botany Bay Document : A Poetic History of the Women of Botany Bay. Dreaming Transportation also draws on ship logs, newspaper excerpts, ballads, reels and letters.

Production Details

  • World premiere season presented by Sydney Festival and Riverside Theatre in association with Music Theatre Sydney from 22-25 January 2003. Artistic direction by Andree Greenwell and stage direction by Christopher Ryan.

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First known date: 2003
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Works about this Work

Long-Lost Voices of Women Sung Back Into History Sharon Verghis , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25-26 January 2003; (p. 5)
— Review of Dreaming Transportation Jordie Albiston , 2003 single work drama
Long-Lost Voices of Women Sung Back Into History Sharon Verghis , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25-26 January 2003; (p. 5)
— Review of Dreaming Transportation Jordie Albiston , 2003 single work drama
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Last amended 10 May 2023 12:10:16
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  • 1700-1799
  • 1800-1899
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Botany Bay Document : A Poetic History of the Women of Botany Bay
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