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21 mar 2012 · This stylishly shot mobster comedy-thriller has a flashback structure of such complexity - it starts with the funeral and works backwards - that the makers themselves seem confused by it. There ...
TICKETS. Full $32 | Concession $27 l Groups (10+) $27 | Previews $17 l Student Rush $17 l Cheap Wednesdays $17. Please note: this production contains violence and adult themes. “This play is dynamite. Puts the fun back into funeral. This is incredibly rich theatre. Enjoy the first viewing, and then come back for more.
Patrick White. 3.54. 28 ratings0 reviews. Rejected by the 1962 Adelaide Festival Board of Governors as 'unappetising far' - they considered it would be 'impossible to understand' - The Ham Funeral is now regarded as a modernist classic. Set in a dingy British rooming house, the play tells the story of a young poet, who lodges with Mr and Mrs Lusty.
22 mag 2017 · We then see an unsettling, spirited pursuit of a young man by the grief-stricken widow after the relatives have departed the lavish wake (the titular Ham Funeral). Written prior to the crucial works of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, close attention is paid by Gaul and the cast to the visionary text which is at times lyrical, featuring heightened poetic language, and at other times is bawdy ...
' The venue recommended for the premiere of The Ham Funeral at the 1962 Festival was the University of Adelaide's Union Hall theatre. The Board of Governors had an agreement with the venue's management, the University Theatre Guild, to stage the Festival's productions of Australian-authored or small-scale new plays from overseas in this space.
13 giu 2017 · Early on, the Young Man admits to suffering “the poet’s tragedy” — knowing too much and never enough. What he doesn’t know is that he’s walked into a real tragedy, Alma Lusty’s, and is in danger of becoming part of it. Robinson plays the poet’s naivety and disdain with an eloquent smugness. He’s ill-prepared to face two deaths ...
The Ham Funeral. $ 23.99. Available here as a single edition. Also published in Patrick White: Collected Plays Volume 1. An early expressionist drama written in 1948 which explores the spiritual forces that propel us forward. The play created controversy when it was rejected for the 1962 Adelaide Festival of Arts by a Board who thought it was ...
