''Aftershocks'' is a play by Australian playwright Paul Brown. It was first performed at the

Newcastle Playhouse Northern Stage is a theatre and producing theatre company based in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is surrounded by Newcastle University's city centre campus on King's Walk, opposite the students' union building. It hosts various local, national and int ...

, Newcastle in 1991.

Plot

A moving documentary play drawn from the traumatic recollections of members of the Newcastle Workers' Club, which was destroyed in the 1989 earthquake.

First Production

''Aftershocks'' was first presented by the Workers’ Cultural Action Committee with the assistance of the Hunter Valley Theatre Company at the Newcastle Playhouse, Newcastle, on 12 November 1991 with the following cast and crew: *HOWARD, WAYNE: David Yarrow *BOB, STAN, EDDIE: Paul Makeham *JOHN, STEFO: David Cameron *LYN, MELBA, JULIE: Kath Leahy *ELAINE, MARG, PATRON: Rebecca Brandon *KERRY, FAY, JENNY: Sue Porter *Writer-in-residence, Paul Brown *Directors, Brent McGregor and David Watt *Designed by the Company *Lighting, Peter Ross *Project Administration, Julie Pavlou Kirri, and David Owens

References

{{reflist Australian plays 1991 plays 1990s Australian plays