BACK TO THE OLD SELECTION
FOOTPRINT THEATRE presents Steele Rudd's
BACK TO THE OLD SELECTION
adapted by Richard Fotheringham
directed by Lis Shelley
music directed by Christina Mimmocchi
Cobargo Folk Festival 25 Feb 2012 2pm
Pambula Town Hall 3 March 2012 2pm & 7.30pm
Candelo Town Hall 10 March 2012 7.30pm
Web Site : http://www.footprint.org.au
Full Details : It's 1886 in a bark hut on the Darling Downs. Things are dire for the Rudd family, the drought is biting and the bills are mounting up. Will Dad find a way of paying the bills? Will the bear industry save their bacon? Will Sarah find true love? Will Joe ever learn? Will the mystery of the Rudd’s adopted son be solved? And will it rain by Christmas?
With folk music accompaniment, this 1996 adaptation by Queenslander Richard Fotheringham brings Rudd's original characters to life.
Steele Rudd is the pen name of Arthur Hoey Davis. Davis grew up in a bark hut near Toowoomba and in the late 1890s, penning the stories that would later be published as On Our Selection and Our New Selection.
This play is not the same as "On Our Selection" or the contrived "Dad and Dave" stories that stemmed from Bert Bailey's and others' treatment of Rudd's characters.
It is much more sympathetic to the down-to-earth characters that Rudd wrote about in his original unstaged adaptation "In Australia, or The Old Selection". This production finally returns the "Rudd" family name to his beloved characters.
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Location : Cobargo / Pambula / Candelo
Duration : 110
Performances : 4
Visit : Footprint Theatre Inc
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