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y separately published work icon The Forty Lounge Cafe single work   drama   - Two acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 The Forty Lounge Cafe
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Play with music

Set initially in Greece and then Australia (the family shop and home), Greek dialogue is used throughout the play. The production calls for an on-stage musician to provide both a live soundtrack to various parts of the production and to support the singing and dancing. Much of the music is Greek in origin, and includes a Byzantine Hymn. The script further suggests, if possible, the inclusion of a bouzouki musician.

Notes

  • A White Sports Coat, Blood Moon and The Forty Lounge Cafe 'form a loose trilogy dealing with the rituals of Greek family life in Australia' (A White Sports Coat and Other Plays, 1996) that was produced for the stage under the title 'Home - A Trilogy' at La Mama Theatre, June / July 1998.

Production Details

  • First produced by the Playbox Theatre Centre at the Beckett Theatre, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne, 16 March 1990,as part of the Antipodes Festival in Melbourne. Director: Robert Draffin.

    Also performed at : Figtree Theatre, Kensington, NSW 20 January 1993

    La Mama, Carlton, VIC 24 June 1998

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Melbourne, Victoria,: Currency Press ; Playbox Theatre , 1990 .
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      Extent: 70p.
      Description: illus., ports
      ISBN: 0868192619
      Series: Current Theatre Series Currency Press (publisher), 1983- series - publisher 'Current Theatre Series consists of Australian plays published with the program inserted and sold during theatre seasons. The aim of the series is to promote and encourage new dramatic writing and make it accessible to theatregoers and the public. The text is presented at the first day of rehearsal and does not contain changes which the author may choose to make after the play has commenced its present season - these will be incorporated into any new edition published by Currency.' Currency Press.
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    y separately published work icon A White Sports Coat and Other Plays Tes Lyssiotis , Carolyn Pickett (editor), Paddington : Currency Press , 1996 Z310838 1996 selected work drama criticism Paddington : Currency Press , 1996 pg. 47-102
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    y separately published work icon Australian Women's Drama : Texts and Feminisms Peta Tait (editor), Elizabeth Schafer (editor), Paddington : Currency Press , 1997 Z69253 1997 anthology drama (taught in 6 units) Paddington : Currency Press , 1997 pg. 168-205
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Related Works

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Works about this Work

A Timely Return to Cultural Struggles Helen Thomson , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 June 1998; (p. 16)
— Review of A White Sports Coat Tes Lyssiotis , 1988 single work drama ; The Forty Lounge Cafe Tes Lyssiotis , 1990 single work drama
`The Past is Here" : An Interview with Tes Lyssiotis Carolyn Pickett (interviewer), 1996 single work interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 28 1996; (p. 79-85)
A Greek-Australian Drama : A White Sports Coat and Other Plays : Introduction Carolyn Pickett , 1996 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: A White Sports Coat and Other Plays 1996; (p. 7-17)
Measure of a Migrant Woman's Pain Angela Bennie , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 January 1993; (p. 14)
— Review of The Forty Lounge Cafe Tes Lyssiotis , 1990 single work drama
Fractured Life in Exile Leonard Radic , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 20 March 1990; (p. 14)
— Review of The Forty Lounge Cafe Tes Lyssiotis , 1990 single work drama
A Timely Return to Cultural Struggles Helen Thomson , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 June 1998; (p. 16)
— Review of A White Sports Coat Tes Lyssiotis , 1988 single work drama ; The Forty Lounge Cafe Tes Lyssiotis , 1990 single work drama
Untitled Tony Mitchell , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 17 1990; (p. 230-231)
— Review of The Forty Lounge Cafe Tes Lyssiotis , 1990 single work drama
Ethnic Voice Alison Croggon , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 April vol. 112 no. 5713 1990; (p. 94)
— Review of The Forty Lounge Cafe Tes Lyssiotis , 1990 single work drama
Greek Under Milkwood is an Ethnic Milkshake Peter Craven , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 19 March 1990; (p. 12)
— Review of The Forty Lounge Cafe Tes Lyssiotis , 1990 single work drama
Fractured Life in Exile Leonard Radic , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 20 March 1990; (p. 14)
— Review of The Forty Lounge Cafe Tes Lyssiotis , 1990 single work drama
`The Past is Here" : An Interview with Tes Lyssiotis Carolyn Pickett (interviewer), 1996 single work interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 28 1996; (p. 79-85)
A Greek-Australian Drama : A White Sports Coat and Other Plays : Introduction Carolyn Pickett , 1996 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: A White Sports Coat and Other Plays 1996; (p. 7-17)
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    Greece,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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    Australia,
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