'This play with songs and music is written for school and community groups and was devised in collaboration with the EORA Centre's Aboriginal Performing Arts students.' (ERGM Associates website, http://www.rgm.com.au/nm_lit.html)
Dedication: In memory of Leo Coe and Huw Davies.
Production Details
First produced at the EORA centre, Redfern, Sydney, 24 September 1991.
Aboriginal TheatreJohnMcCallum,
2009single work criticism — Appears in:
Belonging : Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century2009;Kevin Gilbert's The Cherry Pickers, written in 1968, before the ocker New Wave started, anticipated many of the issues that were to be raised in the debates over identity poitics in the 1980s. Originally workshopped at the Mews Theatre, Sydney, in 1971, with an all Aboriginal cast as Gilbert insisted, the play was the forerunner of a great body of work by Indigenous playwrights.
Close To The Bone1993single work review — Appears in:
Koori Mail,19 May
no.
511993; — Review of
Close to the BoneNedManning1994single work drama ;
'An exciting new Australian musical, Close to the Bone, by Ned Manning with music and lyrics by Karen Vaughan opens at the Sydney Q Theatre on June 4.'
Close To The Bone1993single work review — Appears in:
Koori Mail,19 May
no.
511993; — Review of
Close to the BoneNedManning1994single work drama ;
'An exciting new Australian musical, Close to the Bone, by Ned Manning with music and lyrics by Karen Vaughan opens at the Sydney Q Theatre on June 4.'
Aboriginal TheatreJohnMcCallum,
2009single work criticism — Appears in:
Belonging : Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century2009;Kevin Gilbert's The Cherry Pickers, written in 1968, before the ocker New Wave started, anticipated many of the issues that were to be raised in the debates over identity poitics in the 1980s. Originally workshopped at the Mews Theatre, Sydney, in 1971, with an all Aboriginal cast as Gilbert insisted, the play was the forerunner of a great body of work by Indigenous playwrights.
