AustLit logo

AustLit

image of person or book cover 785218650330135429.jpg
This image has been sourced from online.
y separately published work icon Bustown single work   drama   young adult  
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Bustown
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'A place of junked buses, forgotten sideshow prizes and people waiting for The Driver. The people of Bustown live, laugh and lose teeth under the watchful eye of the Punkbirds. It's paradise for most, but Axel and Cressida keep wondering about the otherness. We all have to fly the coop someday...'

Source: ATYP website, http://www.atyp.com.au/
Sighted: 28/09/2009

Notes

  • Adapted from a short play produced with members of the 2004 New South Wales Public Schools Junior Drama Ensemble.

Production Details

  • Produced by Australian Theatre for Young People's Young Artists' Program, at ATYP's Studio 1, 22 September - 4 October 2009. Director: Amy Hardingham.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2009
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Bustown [and] Desiree Din and The Red Forest Lachlan Philpott , Maxine Mellor , Brisbane : Playlab , 2010 Z1780803 2010 single work drama Brisbane : Playlab , 2010 pg. 6-83
    • Brisbane, Queensland,: Playlab , 2010 .
      ISBN: 9781921390081
    • South Brisbane, South Brisbane - East Brisbane area, Brisbane - South & South West, Brisbane, Queensland,: Playlab , 2016 .
      image of person or book cover 785218650330135429.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 1vp.
      Note/s:
      • Published January 2016
      ISBN: 9781925338294

Works about this Work

Untitled Nicholas Pickard , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 27 September 2009; (p. 18)

— Review of Bustown Lachlan Philpott , 2009 single work drama
An Outback Dystopia Where Energy Abounds Jason Blake , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 September 2009; (p. 21)

— Review of Bustown Lachlan Philpott , 2009 single work drama
An Outback Dystopia Where Energy Abounds Jason Blake , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 September 2009; (p. 21)

— Review of Bustown Lachlan Philpott , 2009 single work drama
Untitled Nicholas Pickard , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 27 September 2009; (p. 18)

— Review of Bustown Lachlan Philpott , 2009 single work drama

Awards

2010 nominated AWGIE Awards Stage Award Community Theatre
Last amended 28 Sep 2016 10:10:58
Settings:
  • Australian Outback, Central Australia,
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X