Grant Thompson with the cast of Taking On The Chocolate Frog. .Photo by Kate Ryan
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A troupe of ex-criminals has agreed to go back to a prison to learn how to become actors in a new TV observational documentary series, Taking on the Chocolate Frog.
The three-part series will follow the wannabe actors as they rehearse and perform in front of a live audience The Chocolate Frog, a play by Jim McNeil.
The venue is the Parramatta Correctional Centre, where McNeil wrote the play while he was incarcerated for 17 years for armed robbery and shooting a police officer.
The play was first performed in Parramatta Gaol by a group of inmates in 1970. McNeil was paroled in 1974 and died in 1982, homeless and penniless, aged 47.
Created and executive produced by Simon Steel, Screentime.s Executive Producer Entertainment, the docu was commissioned by Studio, Sbs.s arts and entertainment channel on Foxtel. Funding...
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A troupe of ex-criminals has agreed to go back to a prison to learn how to become actors in a new TV observational documentary series, Taking on the Chocolate Frog.
The three-part series will follow the wannabe actors as they rehearse and perform in front of a live audience The Chocolate Frog, a play by Jim McNeil.
The venue is the Parramatta Correctional Centre, where McNeil wrote the play while he was incarcerated for 17 years for armed robbery and shooting a police officer.
The play was first performed in Parramatta Gaol by a group of inmates in 1970. McNeil was paroled in 1974 and died in 1982, homeless and penniless, aged 47.
Created and executive produced by Simon Steel, Screentime.s Executive Producer Entertainment, the docu was commissioned by Studio, Sbs.s arts and entertainment channel on Foxtel. Funding...
- 8/14/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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