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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
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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.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Lightning Fails to Strike Twice
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 March 2015; (p. 11)
— Review of Freak Winds 1999 single work drama -
Shock Tactics Scare a New Generation
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 March 2015; (p. 5)
— Review of Freak Winds 1999 single work drama -
A Little Play's Battle to Make it in the Big Apple
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 April 2006; (p. 19)
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Shock Tactics Scare a New Generation
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 March 2015; (p. 5)
— Review of Freak Winds 1999 single work drama -
Lightning Fails to Strike Twice
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 March 2015; (p. 11)
— Review of Freak Winds 1999 single work drama -
A Little Play's Battle to Make it in the Big Apple
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 April 2006; (p. 19)