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Freak Winds single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Freak Winds
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'In a quiet neighbourhood on a dangerously stormy night, brash insurance salesman Henry Crumb invades the home of the reclusive Ernest and his mysterious companion Myra. Although Ernest seems like the perfect patsy, Henry's sales-pitch doesn't go as planned and the evening soon takes a strange and unsettling turn...

'Red line Productions is proud to announce the long awaited revival of Marshall Napier's classic 'Freak Winds' - one of the most celebrated Australian plays in recent years. We are bringing this gothic thriller back to its original home at the Old Fitzroy Theatre where it first saw life over a decade ago (before going on to a number of highly successful international productions). As in the acclaimed original, Marshall Napier is on board to act and direct.' (2015 production summary)

Production Details

  • Produced at the Old Fitzroy Hotel, Wooloomooloo, Sydney in 1999 and 2000. Produced on Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York, USA, in April 2006.

    Performed at Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo: 10 March -11 April 2015

    Cast: Anna Bamford, Marshall Napier, Ben O'Toole.

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Works about this Work

Lightning Fails to Strike Twice Jason Blake , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 March 2015; (p. 11)

— Review of Freak Winds Marshall Napier , 1999 single work drama
Shock Tactics Scare a New Generation Elissa Blake , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 March 2015; (p. 5)

— Review of Freak Winds Marshall Napier , 1999 single work drama
A Little Play's Battle to Make it in the Big Apple Mark Coultan , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 April 2006; (p. 19)
Shock Tactics Scare a New Generation Elissa Blake , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 March 2015; (p. 5)

— Review of Freak Winds Marshall Napier , 1999 single work drama
Lightning Fails to Strike Twice Jason Blake , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 March 2015; (p. 11)

— Review of Freak Winds Marshall Napier , 1999 single work drama
A Little Play's Battle to Make it in the Big Apple Mark Coultan , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 April 2006; (p. 19)
Last amended 6 Mar 2015 06:43:35
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