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Adaptations
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form
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Dead Heart
( dir. Nicholas Parsons
)
Australia
:
Dead Heart Productions
,
1995
Z1359697
1995
single work
film/TV
thriller
crime
A second-generation white Northern Territory police officer must deal with the clash between white law and black law after a young Indigenous Australian man is found dead in police custody.
Notes
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Dedication: For Brian Syron, who provided the inspiration; John Clark, who provided the means; Joanna Arrowsmith, who showed me the way; and my father, who gave me many things.
Production Details
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First produced by the National Institute of Dramatic Art Co., at the NIDA Theatre, Kensington, Sydney, 12 May 1993.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
- y Adaptations : A Guide to Adapting Literature to Film Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2007 Z1361797 2007 single work criticism Adaptations discusses approaches to adaptations of various forms of literature using a range of Australian texts and films as examples.
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Reconciliation? Aboriginality and Australian Theatre in the 1990s
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998; (p. 71-88) Australian Studies Now : An Introductory Reader in Australian Studies 2007; (p. 85-108) Helen Gilbert considers a wide range of Aboriginal theatre produced in the 1990s, tracing the various articulations of Aboriginality in these performances and how, in spite of difficulties and frustrations, they opened up a space for 'productive dialogue' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. -
Bisley at Heart of Culture Clash
1994
single work
biography
— Appears in: The West Australian , 1 February 1994; (p. 4) -
Black, White and Shades of Grey
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 20 March 1994; (p. 127)
— Review of Dead Heart 1994 single work drama -
Culture Clash on Grand Scale
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 8 February 1994; (p. 11)
— Review of Dead Heart 1994 single work drama
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At Sixes and Sevens
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 1 June vol. 115 no. 5872 1993; (p. 90)
— Review of Dead Heart 1994 single work drama ; Fortune 1995 single work drama ; Relative Merits 1993 single work drama -
Cultures Clash Amid the Dust
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Herald , 23 May 1993; (p. 110)
— Review of Dead Heart 1994 single work drama -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 14 May 1993; (p. 10)
— Review of Dead Heart 1994 single work drama -
Culture Clash on Grand Scale
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 8 February 1994; (p. 11)
— Review of Dead Heart 1994 single work drama -
Black, White and Shades of Grey
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 20 March 1994; (p. 127)
— Review of Dead Heart 1994 single work drama - y Adaptations : A Guide to Adapting Literature to Film Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2007 Z1361797 2007 single work criticism Adaptations discusses approaches to adaptations of various forms of literature using a range of Australian texts and films as examples.
-
Reconciliation? Aboriginality and Australian Theatre in the 1990s
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998; (p. 71-88) Australian Studies Now : An Introductory Reader in Australian Studies 2007; (p. 85-108) Helen Gilbert considers a wide range of Aboriginal theatre produced in the 1990s, tracing the various articulations of Aboriginality in these performances and how, in spite of difficulties and frustrations, they opened up a space for 'productive dialogue' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. -
Bisley at Heart of Culture Clash
1994
single work
biography
— Appears in: The West Australian , 1 February 1994; (p. 4) -
Perth Gets Under the Skin
1994
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 1 March 1994; (p. 13) -
Leaders of the Pack
1993
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 7 November 1993; (p. 121)
Awards
- 1994 winner Human Rights Awards — Drama Award
- 1994 winner AWGIE Awards — Stage Award
- 1993 winner New South Wales State Literary Awards — Play Award
Last amended 19 Oct 2023 14:28:55
Settings:
- Northern Territory,
- ca. 1990
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