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'A darkly comic two-hander by award-winning playwright Katy Warner, in which military traditions blend with broken hearts and just a hint of Beckett …
'Set in a room that is filling with snow, two women soldiers sift through the debris to find a sense of themselves amongst the memories and lies, pop-culture references, and stereotypes. They have been told to protect the base but it’s been so quiet for so long and the vodka has run out, the radio is broken and the baby won’t stop crying.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Production Details
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Produced as a performed reading by MKA Theatre at MKA Pop-Up Theatre, 73 Nicholson St., Abbotsford, Victoria, as part of the MKA: Theatre of New Writing - Open Season 2011, day ten, 6 November 2011. Directed by Peta Coy.
Produced by Gobsmacked Theatre at the Queens Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia, as part of The Adelaide Fringe Festival, opening 12 February 2016. Directed by David McVicar, starring Sarah Cullinan and Suzannah Kennett Lister.
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Works about this Work
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Dropped in the Danger Zone, Women and War
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 21 December 2015; (p. 27) -
Do Good Things Come to Those Who Wait?
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 December 2015; (p. 6)
— Review of Dropped 2011 single work drama
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Do Good Things Come to Those Who Wait?
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 December 2015; (p. 6)
— Review of Dropped 2011 single work drama -
Dropped in the Danger Zone, Women and War
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 21 December 2015; (p. 27)