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The Tasmanian Composers Collective

The Death of Chatterton

14 Sept 2005 – 17 Sept 2005

Playwright
Matthew Dewey / Robert Jarman
Director
Robert Jarman
Tickets
$15/$10
Phone
+61 3 6231 2219
Bookings
Administrator
AddressHobart College Studio Theatre
Dead at 17, Thomas Chatterton forged medieval poetry for a meager living. Yet he was eventually hailed as “the marvelous boy”, and enjoyed a posthumous career as a hero of the Romantic Movement, an unparalleled, archetypal and precocious genius. All it required was his death: a romantic suicide in a garret from an overdose of arsenic.

Except … maybe the forged poems were real. Possibly the poisoning was accidental overdose. And who actually wrote his poetical suicide note, the “Final Verses”?

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14, 15, 16, 17 September

Venue

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Approximate location — based on company address

Credits

Direction

  • Robert Jarman

Creative

  • Playwright:Matthew Dewey / Robert Jarman