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SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS
Synopsis….
A musical feature stage production created by David Reeves
based on Ethel Turner’s classic best-seller “Seven Little
Australians” and the stage musical premiered in 1988
Ethel Turner’s classic tale has been taken to heart by young and old since 1894. It has been turned into film in 1939, a television series in 1973 and a stage musical in 1988. The book has been translated into nine languages and has never been out of publication in over a hundred years.
Elegant and handsome but recently widowed Captain Woolcot struggles with himself and his once well ordered young family after re- marrying a child bride fresh from a huge outback property and who quickly provides him with a seventh young mouth to feed. The Captain’s commanding officer thinks it best if the Captain and his family take a new house well away from the barracks.
This is a powerful love story between an inhibited father and a very uninhibited daughter, told through song and dance. It tells of the love that is not always easily expressed between a man and woman, a father and daughter, in fact that which is often so confused between the generations. Captain Woolcot was one such man and his journey and the journeys of the ones he loves so dearly are compellingly revealed in this musical feature film.
The settings provide an Australian travelogue as this ‘Australian family’ finds its way in a young and beautifully unique country with all its possibilities ….. and danger.
Synopsis….
A musical feature stage production created by David Reeves
based on Ethel Turner’s classic best-seller “Seven Little
Australians” and the stage musical premiered in 1988
Ethel Turner’s classic tale has been taken to heart by young and old since 1894. It has been turned into film in 1939, a television series in 1973 and a stage musical in 1988. The book has been translated into nine languages and has never been out of publication in over a hundred years.
Elegant and handsome but recently widowed Captain Woolcot struggles with himself and his once well ordered young family after re- marrying a child bride fresh from a huge outback property and who quickly provides him with a seventh young mouth to feed. The Captain’s commanding officer thinks it best if the Captain and his family take a new house well away from the barracks.
This is a powerful love story between an inhibited father and a very uninhibited daughter, told through song and dance. It tells of the love that is not always easily expressed between a man and woman, a father and daughter, in fact that which is often so confused between the generations. Captain Woolcot was one such man and his journey and the journeys of the ones he loves so dearly are compellingly revealed in this musical feature film.
The settings provide an Australian travelogue as this ‘Australian family’ finds its way in a young and beautifully unique country with all its possibilities ….. and danger.