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Production Details
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First produced by Company B Belvoir and Black Swan Theatre in Berth 9, Darling Harbour, Sydney, 3 January - 8 February 1998.
Director: Neil Armfield.
The international tour of the play to Europe in 1999 was awarded the Best International Production Award at the Dublin Theatre Festival.
Produced by Malthouse Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company of Western Australia.
Presented at Malthouse Theatre, 6 May to 16 June 2019.
Director: Matthew Lutton.
Set and Costume Design: Zoe Atkinson.
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson.
Cast includes Natasha Herbert, Bert La Bonté, Guy Simon, Greg Stone, and Alison Whyte.
Presented as part of the Perth Festival at His Majesty's Theatre, 21 February - 15 March 2020.
Director: Matthew Lutton.
Set & Costume Designer: Zoë Atkinson.
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson.
Sound Designer: J. David Franzke.
Composer: Elizabeth Drake.
Associate Director: Katt Osborne.
Cast: Arielle Gray, Brenna Harding, Natasha Herbert, Bert LaBonté, Ebony McGuire, Mikayla Merks, Ian Michael, Benjamin Oakes, Scott Sheridan, Guy Simon, Greg Stone, and Alison Whyte.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Malthouse Theatre’s Cloudstreet
2019
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 18-24 May 2019;'Although the Malthouse Theatre’s production of Cloudstreet is flawed, its failings cannot overshadow the fundamental power of Tim Winton’s novel.'
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Tim Winton's Cloudstreet Returns to Stage Reimagined for Its Contemporary Australian Audience
2019
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— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , May 2019;
— Review of Cloudstreet 1998 single work drama'There is a palpable sense of excitement in the Merlyn Theatre as the company of Cloudstreet runs through final rehearsals.'
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In Cloudstreet, Nostalgia All Too Easily Redeems Australia’s Colonial Past
2019
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 13 May 2019;'Set in a rambling and ageing house haunted by a colonial past, Cloudstreet is a theatrical adaption of Tim Winton’s 1991 novel of the same title.'
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2017 Arts Highlights of the Year
2017
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 396 2017; (p. 39-43)'To celebrate the year’s memorable plays, films, concerts, operas, ballets, and exhibitions, we invited twenty-six critics and arts professionals to nominate some personal favourites.' (Introduction)
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How to Make the Australian Musical : from The Sapphires to Strictly Ballroom
2017
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 June 2017; 'With Muriel’s Wedding the Musical making its debut in November, we take a look back at mainstage shows through the ages – the good and the bad.'
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Over the Rainbow
1999
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— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , September no. 192 1999; (p. 19)
— Review of Cloudstreet 1998 single work drama -
Cloud Nine
2001
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 June 2001; (p. 2)
— Review of Cloudstreet 1998 single work drama -
Epic with a Silver Lining
2001
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 July 2001; (p. 24)
— Review of Cloudstreet 1998 single work drama -
[Review] Cloudstreet
2000
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review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 37 2000; (p. 99-101)
— Review of Cloudstreet 1998 single work drama -
Australia Growing Up, but in a Warped Mirror
2001
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— Appears in: The New York Times , 4 October 2001;
— Review of Cloudstreet 1998 single work drama -
Nostalgia, Reconciliation or New National Myth? : The Adaptation of 'Cloudstreet' to the Stage
2006
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criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 48 2006; (p. 228-247) 'This article examines and demonstrates how minor aspects in Winton's book regarding a vision of Australia itself and Aboriginal issues were re interpreted and vastly magnified by the play's writers and director in lieu of the period novel's predominant focus on a family saga evoking a specific time and place.' Source: Jack Teiwes, 'Nostalgia, Reconciliation of New National Myth?' Australasian Drama Studies 48 April 2006: (229) -
The Collaboration Process : Nick Enright and Justin Monjo's Adaptation of Cloudstreet
2008
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— Appears in: Nick Enright : An Actor's Playwright 2008; (p. 61-77) -
White Men, Wet Dreams : Fishing, Fatherhood and Finitude in Australian Theatre, 1955-2004
2009
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criticism
— Appears in: Something Rich and Strange : Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in the Antipodes 2009; (p. 62-74) In an overview of films and dramas that feature sea and beach life, 'the plays discussed in this chapter envisage a different relation between masculinity and environment from that of the Bush realist plays. This new relation is one in which an exposure to the sea and the sky has a resolutive effect on men who are somehow incapacitated or incomplete' (71). -
Triple Booked
1997
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biography
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 13-14 December 1997; (p. 36-39) -
On the Street Where We Live
1997
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criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 13 December 1997; (p. 5)
Awards
- 2002 winner Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia — Best Play Awarded for the 2001 season.
- 1999 winner Dublin Theatre Festival — Best International Production Award
- 1999 winner Victorian Green Room Awards — Best New Australian Play
- 1999 joint winner AWGIE Awards — Major Award
- 1999 winner AWGIE Awards — Stage Award — Adaptation
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