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Paradise Is Singing single work   drama   - 80 minutes
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Paradise Is Singing
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'Three playwrights take great joy in propelling their characters through the streets of the tourist city that is Cairns. Our story opens with a busker on the ‘narde painting musical images of a night on the Esplanade where backpackers and locals swim in the tropical miasma that is the wet season. The tension rises as the nightclubs empty and the Esplanade fills.

'We are then introduced to our Sydney-sider souvenir entrepreneur arriving to open her souvenir (read tacky) emporium. A new business venture that promises to end her money woes. But will it come crashing down around her?

'We are then taken to a winters’ night in Melbourne where lonely Moira has invited her fellow Cairns Reef & Rainforest Tour buddies for a slide night reunion where they all see themselves through Moira’s eyes.' (Production summary)

Production Details

  • Performed at JUTE Theatre, Centre of Contemporary Arts Cairns : 7-22 October 2016

    Cast & Crew

    Director: David Fenton

    Playwright: Michael Gow, Mark Gaal and Kathryn Ash

    Set Designer: Simone Tesorieri

    Costume Designer: Simona Cosentini

    Lighting Designer: TBC

    Sound Designer: TBC

    Audio Visual Designer: TBC

    Featuring:

    Roz Pappalardo

    Rachel Terry

    Susan Prince

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  • Cairns, Cairns area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland,
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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