Cribbie DVD

Title: Cribbie DVD
Author: Forde, Michael and Margery
Price: $55.00

STYLE: Verbatim
THEMES; Community, change, hope, dispossessed people

“The audience was transported back in time. There was much laughter, cheers and tears. Cribb Island had come back to life.” – Gary Thorpe,
4MBS Classic FM

SYNOPSIS
Cribbie is musical, verbatim play about Brisbane’s lost suburb of Cribb Island – a charming seaside spot that became the Brisbane Airport in the 1980s.

Cribb Island was once an isolated, tight knit community of Aussie battlers who found refuge and cheap living during The Great Depression. Full of vibrant residents, from the policeman who hadn’t made an arrest in ten years, to the musical family that went on to become the Bee Gees, ‘Cribbie’ was much loved by the people who called it home. But when the suburb was resumed for the expansion of the Airport, the community
was torn apart.

Based on interviews with the suburbs former residents and written by Michael and Margery Forde, Cribbie is a heartwarming, nostalgic story of the community that was forced to leave the place they called home.

PRODUCTION HISTORY
Cribbie was first performed at Metro Arts Brisbane on 26
Novemeber 2009.

PLAYWRIGHT
Margery and Michael Forde are an award-winning writing team and have individually and collectively contributed to Queensland’s proud theatre history. For La Boite Theatre Company they co-wrote Milo’s Wake (Winner of the 2001 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, AWGIE Award nominee) Still Standing, Way Out West and James and Johnno. In 2009 Margery and Michael were commissioned by Classic Radio 4MBS to write Cribbie, and in 2011 they co-wrote the book and lyrics for Behind the Cane a music theatre production for Queensland Music Festival.

Publication date: 01/11/2012
Format: DVD
ISBN: 150313
Publishing status: AU Other [indent]