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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 The Fate of Franklin and His Gallant Crew : (A Junkyard Odyssey)
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'... Lady Franklin's desperate search for her husband's doomed expedition is met with ghostly interruption from the former Lady Franklin and intertwines with the character of Charles Dickens ... writer and producer of 'The Frozen Deep'; a Victorian vision of the Franklin voyage. As Dickens becomes more and more entwined in his own play, the play itself begins to rebel and take on mythic and rebellious proportions. Woven throughout this journey are songs and music ... an epic adventure into the dangers of ice voyages and myth making.'

Source Four Larks Theatre website, www.fourlarkstheatre.com (sighted 16/03/2010)

Notes

  • The season was preceded by 'Lady Fanklin's Lament', 'a night of sea shanties and tales of the arctic', at Bertha Brown, 562 Flinders St., Melbourne, Victoria, 7 and 8 March 2010.

Production Details

  • First produced by Four Larks Theatre at a wharehouse in a secret location at Northcote, Victoria (audience asked to meet at the corner of Little Bakers Street and Charles Street, Northcote, Victoria, to be led to the venue), 12 -14, 17 -21, 24 - 27 March, 2010.

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Works about this Work

Untitled John Bailey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 21 March 2010; (p. 19)

— Review of The Fate of Franklin and His Gallant Crew : (A Junkyard Odyssey) Four Larks , 2010 single work drama
Untitled John Bailey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 21 March 2010; (p. 19)

— Review of The Fate of Franklin and His Gallant Crew : (A Junkyard Odyssey) Four Larks , 2010 single work drama
Last amended 16 Mar 2010 10:38:00
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