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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Royboys
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A play about Australian Rules football, Royboys focuses on the fate of the Fitzroy Football Club.

The cast calls for a musician (dressed as a footy supporter) who plays songs and provides sound effects. The production notes also call for "a navel or military or municipal band" to play emotional propaganda tunes for about twenty minutes or so prior to the start of the play. Songs such as 'Moreton Bay', 'Click Go the Shears', 'Waltzing Matilda', 'Advance Australia Fair' etc are suggested, as is the winding up to a feverish rendition of the Fitzroy Football Club's anthem 'La Marseillaise!'

Production Details

  • First produced by the Playbox Theatre Co., Studio Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne in March 1987. The director was Peter Oyston.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press ; Playbox Theatre , 1987 .
      Extent: 44p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0868191779
      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.

Works about this Work

Untitled Helen Musa , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 April 1988;

— Review of Royboys Barry Dickins , 1987 single work drama
Missing the Performance Mary Lord , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Society , October 1988; (p. 49-51)
Dickins of a Time with Barry Tony Wright , 1988 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 March 1988; (p. B3)
Football as the Nation's Heart and Soul Jennifer Ellison , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 7 April vol. 109 no. 5564 1987; (p. 73)

— Review of Royboys Barry Dickins , 1987 single work drama
Dickins Looks Life in the Eye Garrie Hutchinson , 1987 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Times on Sunday , 22 March 1987; (p. 31)
Football as the Nation's Heart and Soul Jennifer Ellison , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 7 April vol. 109 no. 5564 1987; (p. 73)

— Review of Royboys Barry Dickins , 1987 single work drama
Untitled Helen Musa , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 April 1988;

— Review of Royboys Barry Dickins , 1987 single work drama
Dickins Looks Life in the Eye Garrie Hutchinson , 1987 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Times on Sunday , 22 March 1987; (p. 31)
Dickins of a Time with Barry Tony Wright , 1988 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 March 1988; (p. B3)
Missing the Performance Mary Lord , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Society , October 1988; (p. 49-51)
Last amended 15 Mar 2013 13:59:59
Subjects:
  • Urban,
  • Fitzroy, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,
Settings:
  • 1980s
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