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The Chocolate Frog single work   drama   - One act
Is part of The McNeil Project 2012 sequence drama
Issue Details: First known date: 1973... 1973 The Chocolate Frog
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Production Details

  • First produced by the Q Theatre Group. AMP Theatre, Sydney, 13 July 1971.
  • Produced as part of a double bill The McNeil Project with The Old Familiar Juice at Melbourne's Fortyfivedownstairs theatre on July 6 2012.

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Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.
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Related Works

form y separately published work icon Taking on the Chocolate Frog Debbie Cuell , ( dir. Debbie Cuell ) Australia : Screentime , 2014 6899147 2014 single work film/TV

'This series follows a group of hardened ex-prisoners as they’re challenged to perform a play called The Chocolate Frog, which was written by one of Australia's most violent criminals, Jim McNeil, while he was serving 17 years in Parramatta Gaol. Guided by coach Grant Thompson, the group will be challenged to put on the play inside the place it was written: Parramatta Gaol. Tension will be high, as Grant has just 10 weeks to get these Shakespearean wannabes ready to pull off the most credible and inspiring performance of their lives.' (Source: Screen Australia)
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Works about this Work

form y separately published work icon Taking on the Chocolate Frog Debbie Cuell , ( dir. Debbie Cuell ) Australia : Screentime , 2014 6899147 2014 single work film/TV

'This series follows a group of hardened ex-prisoners as they’re challenged to perform a play called The Chocolate Frog, which was written by one of Australia's most violent criminals, Jim McNeil, while he was serving 17 years in Parramatta Gaol. Guided by coach Grant Thompson, the group will be challenged to put on the play inside the place it was written: Parramatta Gaol. Tension will be high, as Grant has just 10 weeks to get these Shakespearean wannabes ready to pull off the most credible and inspiring performance of their lives.' (Source: Screen Australia)
Playwright's Perils of Prison Justified Cameron Woodhead , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 July 2012; (p. 15)
— Review of The Chocolate Frog Jim McNeil , 1973 single work drama ; The Old Familiar Juice Jim McNeil , 1973 single work drama
Old Lags Back after Decades as McNeil Prison Pieces are Revived Chris Boyd , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 10 July 2012; (p. 17)
— Review of The Chocolate Frog Jim McNeil , 1973 single work drama ; The Old Familiar Juice Jim McNeil , 1973 single work drama
The Prose of a Con Raymond Gill , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 30 June 2012; (p. 18-19)
Inside Job Rosemary Neill , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23 - 24 June 2012; (p. 4-5) McNeil's plays The Chocolate Frog and The Old Familiar Juice open at Melbourne's Fortyfivedownstairs theatre on July 6 2012 as a double bill entitled The McNeil Project.
Old Lags Back after Decades as McNeil Prison Pieces are Revived Chris Boyd , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 10 July 2012; (p. 17)
— Review of The Chocolate Frog Jim McNeil , 1973 single work drama ; The Old Familiar Juice Jim McNeil , 1973 single work drama
Playwright's Perils of Prison Justified Cameron Woodhead , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 July 2012; (p. 15)
— Review of The Chocolate Frog Jim McNeil , 1973 single work drama ; The Old Familiar Juice Jim McNeil , 1973 single work drama
Inside Stuff Alison Croggon , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 31 October 1989; (p. 10)
— Review of The Chocolate Frog Jim McNeil , 1973 single work drama
Delights of the Week Mostly Small Ones Ann Nugent , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 August 1993; (p. 14)
— Review of The Chocolate Frog Jim McNeil , 1973 single work drama
Untitled M. B. Masram , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Muse , September no. 123 1993; (p. 37)
— Review of The Chocolate Frog Jim McNeil , 1973 single work drama
Revisitings Peter Fitzpatrick , 1979 single work criticism
— Appears in: After 'The Doll' : Australian Drama Since 1955 1979; (p. 157-175)
Inside Job Rosemary Neill , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23 - 24 June 2012; (p. 4-5) McNeil's plays The Chocolate Frog and The Old Familiar Juice open at Melbourne's Fortyfivedownstairs theatre on July 6 2012 as a double bill entitled The McNeil Project.
The Prose of a Con Raymond Gill , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 30 June 2012; (p. 18-19)
Kate Civil Discovers "The Chocolate Frog" Kate Civil , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Muse , August no. 122 1993; (p. 15)
His Walled World is a Stage Neil Jillett , 1974 single work biography
— Appears in: The Herald , 2 December. 1974; (p. 4)
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Subjects:
  • Urban,
Settings:
  • 1970s
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