More from Snowtown

[jack_ryder]

ferkster and I were doing research on Snowtown for a Short and Sweet submission before we realised we just couldn't do it justice in under ten minutes (or even in one act.)

The abuse of the victims was hard enough to read about in the two published accounts of the murders, but there's still more coming out.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There is no way you could do justice unless it was a ten minute musical...that's about two to three songs...

Sorry that was poor taste I know, I realised this when the dismembered legs of a chorus line came tapping across the stage of my skull...

I'll stop now

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

Funny thing was, I kept thinking of "Snowtown the Musical" when we were trying to figure out how to do it. It would probably make a good opera.

[(Anonymous)]

Well I suppose it's not much different from Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber who makes pies out of his victims but still

the Berko of Saville

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

there would be a major problem with making Bunting a tragic figure (like Sondheim made Sweeney). Bunting was nothing more than a monster, although a product of his environment. The point of view character I would use was the poor bastard Bunting and his mates used as an accessory. Apart from the victims he appears to be the most tragic character.