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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 King Tide
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Three years ago, Sal was an award-winning investigative journalist. Uncovering government corruption and public scandals she was forever on the front line. But her son's death robbed Sal of her willingness to engage. Increasingly reclusive, she opted out, choosing to live in a borrowed beach house as she struggles to come to terms with her loss.

'When her teenage daughter brings home a Japanese surfer to stay, Sal finds herself confronted with a sense of danger that was once so vital to her life.

'King Tide is a surprising story of hope, emerging out of the love and vulnerability of two very different people.' (Publisher's blurb)

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon King Tide Katherine Thomson , 2011 Australia : ABC Radio National , 2011 Z1828236 2011 single work radio play '... set somewhere on the coast of New South Wales during the Howard era and post the Iraq invasion. The central character is Sal, a once high-profile journalist who has retreated from the world after the death of her son in a surfing accident. Living with her daughter Beck at their beach shack, Sal now watches videos of the Iraq war protests over and over. Into this situation comes Taka, a mysterious Japanese backpacker and then Sal's wheeler-dealer brother Jack arrives with his new girlfriend Nat ... this radio version features the original stage cast ...' (ABC Radio National website)

Notes

  • Commissioned by HoriPro Inc., Japan (Griffin Theatre Company program).

Production Details

  • Australian premiere produced by Griffin Theatre Company at SBW Stables Theatre, 19 October to 24 November 2007.

    Director: Patrick Nolan.

    Designer: Alice Babidge.

    LX Designer: Bernie Tan.

    Video Designer: Mic Gruchy.

    Composer & Sound Designer: Scott Saunders.

    Cast: Kathryn Beck, Anita Hegh, Russell Kiefel, Toni Scanlan, and Masa Yamaguchi.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2007 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 52p.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:

      • Includes the Griffin Theatre Company program.

      ISBN: 9780868198040
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Works about this Work

Immersed in Sorrow as the World Closes In John McCallum , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 29 October 2007; (p. 18)
— Review of King Tide Katherine Thomson , 2007 single work drama
Beach House Fraught with Tension Stephen Dunne , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 October 2007; (p. 16)
— Review of King Tide Katherine Thomson , 2007 single work drama
A Bit of This, a Bit of That, and Some of Herself Louise Schwartzkoff , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 October 2007; (p. 18)
Beach House Fraught with Tension Stephen Dunne , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 October 2007; (p. 16)
— Review of King Tide Katherine Thomson , 2007 single work drama
Immersed in Sorrow as the World Closes In John McCallum , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 29 October 2007; (p. 18)
— Review of King Tide Katherine Thomson , 2007 single work drama
A Bit of This, a Bit of That, and Some of Herself Louise Schwartzkoff , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 October 2007; (p. 18)
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