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PETER LARSEN
Nationality: New Zealander
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ALBERT BLACK Teenage Love Crimes Lithium KissALBERT BLACK Teenage Love Crimes
Synopsis:
Blame rock and roll. Blame slick-back heart throb James Dean. Blame the pulp fiction of Mickey Spillane. New Zealand in the 1950's was on the cusp of a cultural transformation that was sweeping the world. In the aftermath of world war, the USA's influence on the South Pacific was irresistible. Brassy, consumerist America had unleashed new appetites in a land of conservative Protestant Kiwis. The first to wholeheartedly adopt American Influences were a new and vivacious subculture that would go on to remake our world -Teenagers - and their unbound energies triggered a moral panic that would end at the gallows. Based on actual characters and events, ALBERT BLACK is a new play chronicling the fiery emergence of New Zealand's first teenagers. It's a Kiwi Rebel Without A Cause, set amongst (as a newspaper described it at the time) - "a teenage wasteland of warring juveniles, delinquents, teenage sex, no parental supervision, all-night dives, blaring jukeboxes - even a cult built around the banned books of Mickey Spillane." Vivid as a comic book, the play follows Belfast immigrant Albert Black - a frowned on Bodgie - as he scrapes by in the conservative and surreal New Zealand of the mid-fifties. . . a country in the grip of a teenage crime wave which could have been ripped from the pages of one of Spillane's hard boiled paperbacks: the Parker-Hulme murder, the Milk Bar Murder and the notorious Jukebox Killing that leads Albert to his tragic demise. Written by local playwright Peter Larsen for a large cast at NYT, the play explores the anarchic rise of the teenager in New Zealand culture. "Before the advent of the teenager there was only childhood and adulthood," explains Larsen. "Then child labour law reform and extended education created a new generation- one with a child's responsibilities but adult urges. Society struggled to integrate and understand this new cultural phenomenon, and still does to this day." - http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=3521
Notes:
Based on Redmer Yska's All Shook Up: the Flash Bodgie and the Rise of the New Zealand Teenager in the 1950s (Penguin 1993)
1st Produced:
Old Library Art Centre, Whangarei, Nz
16 Oct 2013
Organisations:
Northland Youth Theatre
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Music:
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TYA
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: Featuring 22 actors aged 14-17
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Synopsis:
A man goes to visit his ex-lover in an asylum. She claims she is the sanest one there but it soon becomes obvious she is not
Notes:
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1st Produced:
Part Of Short And Sweet, Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre, The Edge, Auckland
01 Jul 2011
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Music:
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Genre:
ten min play
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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