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18 Feb 2004 – 28 Feb 2004February 2004
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Details
- Playwright
- Chris Gaffney
- Director
- Susanna Duffy
AddressTrades Hall - 54 Victoria St (cnr Lygon St) Carlton
CRASS - An Evening of Corporate Follies
presented by Keep Left Theatre
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2003 was the centenary of the Ford Motor Company founded by Henry Ford, noted union hater and admirer of Hitler.
But what of the generations of workers who built the cars ... where is their story? How did they see the rise and rise of Crass and his like?
In a comic sketch style CRASS traces the rise of Henry Crass over the century from the view point of the workers ... from the T Model to the all powerful, bigger than God corporation of today. It could be any corporation and it could be any worker ... it could be YOU!
CRASS is a thinly veiled (very thinly veiled) portrait of Henry Ford set as an all-singing, all-dancing, straight up and down parody of our economic system, our idealisation of farm boys who make it rich, and our our passion for fossil fuel, fashion and the fast buck.
CRASS is no sermon on past miseries, no lecture disguised as theatre. This is sketch style satire with catchy bouncy music - wit and laughter on every page - with over 60 characters and the best cast seen in years.
Adapted by Chris Gaffney (from "The Motor Show" by Paul Thompson & Steve Gooch). Directed by Susanna Duffy.
presented by Keep Left Theatre
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2003 was the centenary of the Ford Motor Company founded by Henry Ford, noted union hater and admirer of Hitler.
But what of the generations of workers who built the cars ... where is their story? How did they see the rise and rise of Crass and his like?
In a comic sketch style CRASS traces the rise of Henry Crass over the century from the view point of the workers ... from the T Model to the all powerful, bigger than God corporation of today. It could be any corporation and it could be any worker ... it could be YOU!
CRASS is a thinly veiled (very thinly veiled) portrait of Henry Ford set as an all-singing, all-dancing, straight up and down parody of our economic system, our idealisation of farm boys who make it rich, and our our passion for fossil fuel, fashion and the fast buck.
CRASS is no sermon on past miseries, no lecture disguised as theatre. This is sketch style satire with catchy bouncy music - wit and laughter on every page - with over 60 characters and the best cast seen in years.
Adapted by Chris Gaffney (from "The Motor Show" by Paul Thompson & Steve Gooch). Directed by Susanna Duffy.
Bookings
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