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The Man From
Mukinupin

By Dorothy Hewett
Director Wesley Enoch

  • Venue Upstairs Theatre
  • Dates 1 Apr – 17 May 2009

This is musical comedy and wheatbelt Shakespeare rolled into one, bursting with sunlight and song, revelling in darkness, peopled with a rabble of broken-down vaudevillians, lingerie salesmen and war heroes.

The Man from Mukinupin is one of Australia’s great theatrical creations from one of our great poets and ratbags, Dorothy Hewett. In dusty Mukinupin, Jack Tuesday loves Polly Perkins and Polly loves Jack. But when night comes it’s Touch Of The Tar who tickles Jack’s drunken fancy. Through this double-Mukinupin, by day and night, Hewett gives us a twin vision of black and white Australia clinging together for all we’re worth.

Wesley Enoch and the great Kerry Walker mucked up big time in this special 30th anniversary production of Hewett’s full-throated glorification of our dark side.

Team

By Dorothy Hewett
Director Wesley Enoch
Musical Director Alan John
Set & Costume Designer Richard Roberts
Lighting Designer Rachael Burke
Choreographer Jack Webster
Music Arrangements Alan John
Sound Designer Steve Francis
Sound Operator Jeremy Silver
Stage Manager Mark Lowrey
Assistant Stage Manager Joshua Sherrin
Vocal Coach Nicole Alexander
Fight Choreographer Kyle Rowling

Cast

Craig Annis
Suzannah Bayes-Morton
Lillian Crombie
Max Gillies
Alan John
Valentina Levkowicz
Amanda Muggleton
David Page
Kerry Walker
Daryl Wallis

Production images by Heidrun Lohr

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