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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Watershed : The Death of Dr Duncan
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'Fusing inquest transcripts, press clippings, private correspondence, real and imagined monologues spanning five decades of anti-gay violence, and 30 years of research by local historian Tim Reeves, this joint commission between Adelaide Festival, Feast Festival and State Opera South Australia demands the embrace of all thinking audiences, but is of special importance to this city.'

Source: State Opera South Australia.

Notes

  • Oratorio.

Production Details

  • Presented by State Opera South Australia at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, 2 - 8 March 2022.

    Co-commissioned by Feast Festival, Adelaide Festival, and State Opera South Australia, supported by Arts South Australia. Presented in association with Feast Festival. Supported by the Adelaide Festival’s Commissioning Circle, Sidney Myer Fund, and Nunn Dimos Foundation.

    Director: Neil Armfield.

    Conductor: Christie Anderson.

    Choreographer: Lewis Major.

    Performers: Adelaide Chamber Singers.

    Presented by Opera Australia at Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera Hosue, 14-16 June 2024.

    Conductor: Brett Weymark.

    Director: Neil Armfield.

    Associate Director: Cheryl Pickering.

    Set and Costume Designer: Ailsa Paterson.

    Lighting Designer: Nigel Levings.

    Sound Designer: Jane Rossetto.

    Choreographer: Lewis Major.

    Cast: Mark Oates (Duncan/Dunstan) and Pelham Andrews (Mick O'Shea/Cop/Lawyer).

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First known date: 2022
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Works about this Work

[Review] Watershed : The Death of Dr Duncan Humphrey Bower , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 441 2022; (p. 59)
— Review of Watershed : The Death of Dr Duncan Alana Valentine , Christos Tsiolkas , 2022 single work musical theatre 'Neil Armfield’s production of Watershed ­– a new oratorio by composer Joe Twist and co-librettists Alana Valentine and Christos Tsolkias about the murder of Ian Duncan by police in Adelaide in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up and campaign for homosexual law reform – is an angry, brave, beautiful, emotionally shattering, and unexpectedly uplifting work.' 

(Introduction)
Muddy Waters Rosemary Neill , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5 February 2022; (p. 9)
[Review] Watershed : The Death of Dr Duncan Humphrey Bower , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 441 2022; (p. 59)
— Review of Watershed : The Death of Dr Duncan Alana Valentine , Christos Tsiolkas , 2022 single work musical theatre 'Neil Armfield’s production of Watershed ­– a new oratorio by composer Joe Twist and co-librettists Alana Valentine and Christos Tsolkias about the murder of Ian Duncan by police in Adelaide in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up and campaign for homosexual law reform – is an angry, brave, beautiful, emotionally shattering, and unexpectedly uplifting work.' 

(Introduction)
Muddy Waters Rosemary Neill , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5 February 2022; (p. 9)
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  • 1972
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