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Plot. The play is set in a filthy rooming house in the depressing context of post-war London, and has as its protagonist a young poet whose attempted seduction by the aptly named Mrs Lusty, his landlady, drives the tragicomic drama. The 'ham funeral' of the title is the feast to mourn the sudden death of Mrs Lusty's husband, held in ...
The Ham Funeral: Directed by Neil Armfield, Virginia Lumsden. With Kerry Walker, Max Cullen, Tyler Coppin, Pamela Rabe. A theatre performance of the play filmed on the Sydney Theatre Company stage.
- Neil Armfield, Virginia Lumsden
- 1990
- Drama
- 120
13 mag 2023 · The Ham Funeral. 1990. 2h. Drama. Cast. Kerry Walker (Alma Lusty) Max Cullen (Will Lusty) Tyler Coppin (Young Man) Pamela Rabe (Girl) Bob Hornery (First Relative) Keith Robinson (Second...
13 giu 2017 · The Ham Funeral: Mrs Lusty's tragedy | RealTime — Australia. The Ham Funeral: Mrs Lusty’s tragedy. Keith Gallasch. It was eerie to be at The Stables and find myself once again in the grip of the poetry, grotesquery and tragedy of Patrick White’s The Ham Funeral (1948).
Plot: When a cantankerous landlord dies, his wife throws a funeral for his uppity relatives. The Young Man upstairs – sitting on the edge of an uncertain future – finds himself drawn in to the strange, lonely world below.
30 apr 2013 · The Ham Funeral is a delightfully vulgar investigation of the human condition – part vaudeville, part lyric poem, part gothic drama. In a dingy inner-city boarding house, a naïve young poet is inexorably drawn into the strange world of the basement-dwelling landlord and his wife, the splendidly grotesque Mr and Mrs Lusty.
About. In a gothic inner-city boarding house, a naïve young poet is drawn into the fetid world of the basement-dwelling landlord and his wife, the hauntingly grotesque Mr and Mrs Lusty. When her husband drops dead suddenly, Mrs Lusty announces a lavish funeral feast in his honour.
