"Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths" - Newtown Theatre, Sydney, Australia
posted by davidt on Wednesday May 30 2007, @11:00AM

Alan Rance writes:
"I was looking for love and I found love, but heaven knows I'm miserable now…"

HALF A PERSON: MY LIFE AS TOLD BY THE SMITHS
A play by Alex Broun
Directed by Robert Chuter
with
David Forster as William

William is too smart for his long black drinking, tight jeans wearing, emo hairstyle sporting, ‘The Smiths’ worshipping good. He only exists to devour coffee, despise ’people’ and worship the patron saint of wrist-slashing -Steven Patrick Morrissey. Just like his Idol the world he occupies is cruelly lonely. He stumbles from café to cemetery in search of a companion or maybe just a confidant. He runs headlong into Salome; the obtuse, obstructive, agent of seduction that slithers her way into his addictive personality where she infatuates herself remorselessly. Meanwhile, the best friend that he never knew he might not have one day, Rick, is struggling with his own desire for William and his dwindling mortality. William is confined in a terrible triangle; the girl of his dreams treats him like dirt, his best friend is in love with him and on top of this, the Smiths have broken up. A beautifully dark, blackly funny and painfully touching play set to the music of The Smiths, the music that gives William a chance to be more than just, ‘Half A Person.’

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NEWTOWN THEATRE,
Corner King & Bray Streets
Newtown South, NSW, Australia

Bookings MCA Ticketing 1300 306 776; or www.mca-tix.com

Preview: Tuesday, 18 September @ 9.00pm
Wednesday-Saturday, 19-22 September @ 9.00pm
Tuesday-Saturday, 25-29 September @ 9.00pm

Tix: Preview: $17.50 & $27.50/$22.50 [Concession]

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say it isnt so (Score:0)
is that that chris crocker faggot?
Anonymous -- Wednesday May 30 2007, @11:57AM (#260833)
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Swallowneck Amputation (Score:0)
Swallowneck would sooner cut off his own penis and spoon-feed it to Forster88 than see this dubious act of theatre...

Fair comment, I suppose!
MarkFromScatter -- Wednesday May 30 2007, @12:19PM (#260844)
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If you don't like me, don't look at me...
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Huh? (Score:0)
...I don't get it? What is this suppose to be?
Anonymous -- Wednesday May 30 2007, @12:32PM (#260849)
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    I think it's a play (Score:0)
    about a lad who behaves like a media based sterotype of what all Morrissey and The Smith fans are like. Sounds rubbish.

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    Anonymous -- Wednesday May 30 2007, @02:41PM (#260885)
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    'Patron Saint of Wrist Slashing' (Score:1)
    This sounds vile.
    Strutting Rooster -- Wednesday May 30 2007, @03:15PM (#260890)
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    what a handsom devil that actor is. (Score:1)
    can i shag the lead please?
    wilburthepig -- Wednesday May 30 2007, @03:42PM (#260893)
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    Ive seen it... have you? (Score:1)
    Ive seen this show in Adelaide, and it was bloody good. It's not a piss-take. Its about a guy who loves the Smiths and Morrissey. Damn fine singer, too.
    Smithy54 -- Thursday May 31 2007, @09:08PM (#261082)
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