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...clown Clarabell on the Howdy Doody Show. Seven years later, at the age of 28, he debuted as the grandfatherly Captain Kangaroo, who was named for his multipocketed jacket. He taught subtle lessons in chats with characters like the animal-loving farmer Mr. Green Jeans, the carrot-craving Bunny Rabbit and the laconic Grandfather Clock. Keeshan, who didn't patronize his audience, lamented in 1993 that recent television programs for kids were too simplistic for children. "There's no room to stretch," he said...
...Both Rabbit and Harbour look at events from the grassroots up: at how a cynical distrust of politicians and big business can be harnessed into people power instead of hatred. And both - written and directed by women - suggest that the real battles were not fought in the male domains of football fields or the waterfront but in the home. Certainly Harbour is more interested in how an industrial dispute can divide a family than in its effect on a country. Having fled his wife Vi (Melissa Jaffer) six years before, Sandy returns to Millers Point to find a changed order...
...balaclavas moved in with Rottweilers to take over Australia's docks (the waterside workers later won their case in court). Across town, at the Belvoir Street Theatre, another late-'90s battle is being restaged. 'An ant is small," says one of the footy fans of Alana Valentine's Run Rabbit Run, 'but if you get enough ants in a bed, they'll drive a man crazy." In this case, the man was Rupert Murdoch, and the ants were members of the South Sydney Rugby League Club, the Rabbitohs, which Murdoch sought to sacrifice in his pared-down Super League...
...includes not only high-profile Souths saviors like then-chairman George Piggins and solicitor Nick Pappas, but blind barracker Roger Harvey and mother and daughter Barbara Selby and Marcia Seebacher - just some of the 40 or so characters evoked by this skilful cast of 10. If you think Rabbit sounds like an episode of Australian Story on stage, you're not mistaken: Valentine has taken the dialogue from transcripts on the public record. But the cleverly constructed play, directed by Kate Gaul, comes off as a community's cry for self-esteem, not a critique of pay-TV or rugby...
...seems stilted. While Stephen Curtis's set evokes Sydney's watery darkness, Thomson's writing only skims the dockyard drama. Humor is to be found in the substory of scab worker Craig (Mitchell Butel), but for all its talk about a defining moment in history, Harbour lacks focus - unlike Rabbit, which never takes its eye off the ball. 'It's a thread that goes through your life," supporter Mark Courtney says of the Rabbitoh tradition. Flaunting the red of the Catholic church and the green of the club founders' Irish homeland, it's a play that dares to show...