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Thursday, 9 March 2000, 3:54 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

Eryn Wilson promotes his show "Small Town Boy" – photos Tori Buttle.

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SMALL TOWN BOY

"we were all green once"
Written & Performed by Eryn Wilson
Directed by Jed Brophy

venue: Bats Theatre
dates: 18th - 22nd March
performance time: 8:30pm
duration: 50 mins approx
bookings ph: 802-4175

Small Town Boy is a debut solo show Imagine a bare stage, a chair, a blues harp, a conga drum, and one actor who takes us on an exaggerated auto-biographical adventure through the life of a young man who shifts from Tauranga to Wellington.

Full-moon drumming, hairdressers, broken down cars, nightclubs, and new flats are all par for the course.

You may have last seen Eryn in Trainspotting-the play at the Phoenix last year, in which he played Tommy and Sickboy.

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Alastair Thompson

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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