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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Apocalypse Bear Trilogy
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'This is an invitation. New lands are being created. Memory, now and the future are pouring onto the internet. Reality is splintering into shards of mirror and a casual, congenial bear is showing up at people's houses. If you've had a bad day at school, he'll take you back to where it all went wrong. Or he may invite you to the woods - a place of myth, transgression and discovery, where outcasts can start again - but with grave consequences.'

'In the first of the trilogy, "The Fag from Zagreb", Jeremy, comes home at twilight to find the house empty except for the Apocalypse Bear preparing his after school snack. In the second, "Back to the Cafeteria", Sonya is trying to make sense of her failed marriage by returning to adolescence and unpicking the high school holy trinity of popularity, cool and beauty. "Into the Woods" brings the two characters together under the benign malevolence of the Apocalypse Bear.'

Source: Melbourne Theatre Company website, http://www.mtc.com.au/
Sighted: 20/07/2009

Production Details

  • First produced by Stuck Pigs Squealing at the Lawler Studio, 8 October - 24 October 2009. Directors: Luke Mullins and Brian Lipson.

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Works about this Work

Out of the Box Peter Robb , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Monthly , August no. 70 2011; (p. 50-52)
Untitled John Bailey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 18 October 2009; (p. 19)

— Review of Apocalypse Bear Trilogy Lally Katz , 2009 single work drama
Surrealist Whimsy Proves Hard to Bear in the Long Run Cameron Woodhead , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 October 2009; (p. 18)

— Review of Apocalypse Bear Trilogy Lally Katz , 2009 single work drama
Haunting Epiphany in a Bear Suit Alison Croggon , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 12 October 2009; (p. 16)

— Review of Apocalypse Bear Trilogy Lally Katz , 2009 single work drama
Enter Lally Katz, Pursued By a Bear Matthew Clayfield , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 30 September 2009; (p. 16)

— Review of Apocalypse Bear Trilogy Lally Katz , 2009 single work drama
Enter Lally Katz, Pursued By a Bear Matthew Clayfield , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 30 September 2009; (p. 16)

— Review of Apocalypse Bear Trilogy Lally Katz , 2009 single work drama
Haunting Epiphany in a Bear Suit Alison Croggon , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 12 October 2009; (p. 16)

— Review of Apocalypse Bear Trilogy Lally Katz , 2009 single work drama
Surrealist Whimsy Proves Hard to Bear in the Long Run Cameron Woodhead , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 October 2009; (p. 18)

— Review of Apocalypse Bear Trilogy Lally Katz , 2009 single work drama
Untitled John Bailey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 18 October 2009; (p. 19)

— Review of Apocalypse Bear Trilogy Lally Katz , 2009 single work drama
Out of the Box Peter Robb , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Monthly , August no. 70 2011; (p. 50-52)
Last amended 21 Jul 2009 10:37:25
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