Currency Press
0
  • Books
    • New Releases
      • New Releases Currency Press
      • New Releases Nick Hern Books
    • Scripts
      • Children’s and Young Adult
      • Play Collections
      • Currency Press Plays
      • Nick Hern Books Plays
      • Screenplays
    • Professional Handbooks
      • Acting and audition
      • Activities and Games
      • Dance and Movement
      • Directing and Theatremaking
      • Shakespeare
      • Voice and performance skills
      • Writers and Writing
    • Performing arts general
      • Australian Screen Classics
      • Biography, History and Criticism
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Education
    • Currency House Books
      • Platform Papers
      • General Titles
    • What’s On Stage
  • Authors
    • Currency Authors
    • Nick Hern Authors
  • Playwrights’ Festival
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues/Price Lists
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
    • Educators
      • Syllabus Text Lists
      • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
    • Currency House
  • News
0
was successfully added to your cart.

Press enter to begin your search
Home Adaptations Cold Light
Cold Light

Cold Light

$24.99

ISBN: 9781760620493
Author: Alana Valentine, Frank Moorhouse
Publication Date: 2/03/2017
Edition: CTS
Publisher: Currency Press
Extent: 100pp.
Availability: Available
Request reading copy: Here
(Academics and teachers)
Cast Info: 4F , 19M , doubling possible.

eBook Vendors:

Clear
SKU: BK1186 Categories: Adaptations, Australian history, Currency Press, Epic, Gender themes, Plays, Plays by women, Political / social themes, Significant female role/s Tags: Alana Valentine, Currency Press, Scripts
  • Details
  • Additional information

Here comes Edith Campbell Berry, fresh from International acclaim at the League of Nations, handsome British diplomatic husband in tow. Look out 1950s Canberra, she’s on her way to the top. Or is she?

The League was after all a failure, and hubby dear is a secret cross dresser and her long lost brother is a Communist agitator watched by a fledgling ASIO. Maybe those dreams of renewed diplomatic honour might take longer than she thinks to materialise. A lot longer. And so to be ‘acceptable’ she consults the Book of Crossroads, bungles her inner life, remarries badly, and compromises her career options.

An epic story of national significance, Cold Light surveys the transformation of Australia from the post-WWII Menzies era to the mid-1970s Whitlam government and asks timely questions about Australia’s relationship to women of vision and people of difference.

Additional information

formats

ePub, Mobi, Print

More Titles To Explore

  • The Cake Man
    $24.99
    Currency Press, Indigenous playwrights, Indigenous themes, Internationally produced, Plays

    The Cake Man

    Select options
  • Caress / Ache
    $24.99
    Currency Press, Drama, Plays, Plays by women, Poetic, Surreal / magic realism

    Caress / Ache

    Select options
  • Ding Dong the Wicked
    $19.99
    Drama, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Plays by women, Political / social themes

    Ding Dong the Wicked

    Select options
  • Blaque Showgirls
    $24.99
    Black comedy, Comedy, Diverse sexuality themes, Drama, Indigenous playwrights, Indigenous themes, Plays by women, Political / social themes, Satire

    Blaque Showgirls

    Select options
  • NaGL (Not a Good Look)
    $24.99
    Comedy, Currency Press, Farce, Plays, Poetic, Political / social themes, Satire, Surreal / magic realism

    NaGL (Not a Good Look)

    Select options
  • Bird and other monologues for young women
    $27.99
    Drama, Gender themes, Monologues, Nick Hern Books, Play Collections, Plays, Plays by women, Significant female role/s, Solo performer

    Bird and other monologues for young women

    Select options
  • Fast Food
    $24.99
    Currency Press, Drama, Full-length, Naturalism / realism, Plays by women

    Fast Food

    Select options
  • Rapture
    $24.99
    Currency Press, Drama, Plays, Plays by women

    Rapture

    Select options
  • Cathedral
    $24.99
    Currency Press, Drama

    Cathedral

    Select options
  • The Ham Funeral
    $24.99
    Currency Press, Plays

    The Ham Funeral

    Select options
  • Jack Thorne Plays: One
    $44.99
    Drama, Nick Hern Books, Play Collections, Plays

    Jack Thorne Plays: One

    Select options
  • Platform Papers 11: A Regional State of Mind: Making Art Outside Metropolitan Australia
    $18.99
    Platform Papers

    Platform Papers 11: A Regional State of Mind: Making Art Outside Metropolitan Australia

    Select options
Previous - Next

Search titles

Product categories

  • Acting and audition 119
  • Activities and Games 15
  • Adaptations 159
  • Australian history 59
  • Australian Screen Classics 14
  • Auto/biography 13
  • Award winning 79
  • Black comedy 25
  • CALD writer 25
  • Children’s theatre 36
  • Comedy 265
  • Cross-artform plays 3
  • Currency Press 534
  • Dance and Movement 18
  • Directing and Theatremaking 76
  • Diverse sexuality themes 81
  • Drama 1339
  • Education 13
  • Epic 18
  • Farce 10
  • Full-length 677
  • Gender themes 119
  • Gift Cards 6
  • History and Criticism 26
  • Indigenous playwrights 38
  • Indigenous themes 60
  • Internationally produced 5
  • Monologues 41
  • Multicultural themes 99
  • Music 11
  • Musicals / plays with music 68
  • Mystery 25
  • Naturalism / realism 40
  • New Releases 11
  • Nick Hern Books 1293
  • One-act play 27
  • Physical theatre 9
  • Platform Papers 56
  • Play Collections 105
  • Plays 1396
  • Plays by women 274
  • Poetic 37
  • Political / social themes 443
  • Satire 23
  • Screen books 9
  • Screenplays 7
  • Shakespeare 50
  • Short play under 15 minutes 14
  • Significant female role/s 365
  • Solo performer 65
  • Surreal / magic realism 96
  • Theatre 65
  • Two-hander 66
  • Uncategorized 1
  • Verbatim / close work theatre 20
  • Very short play under 15 minutes 2
  • Voice and performance skills 16
  • What's on stage in 2025 10
  • Whats On Stage 1
  • Writers and Writing 19
  • Young adult 207

Newsletter

Signup to our Newsletter

Select list(s) to subscribe to


By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Currency Press. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact

Links

Contact Us
Booksellers
History
Performance Rights
New Releases
Scripts

Links

The Currency Award
Authors
Submissions
Privacy Policy
Whats On Stage
Writers and Writing
Currency Press acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which we work. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as this country’s first storytellers. Sovereignty has never been ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.

© 2025 Currency Press. All Rights Reserved.

  • Books
    • New Releases
      • New Releases Currency Press
      • New Releases Nick Hern Books
    • Scripts
      • Children’s and Young Adult
      • Play Collections
      • Currency Press Plays
      • Nick Hern Books Plays
      • Screenplays
    • Professional Handbooks
      • Acting and audition
      • Activities and Games
      • Dance and Movement
      • Directing and Theatremaking
      • Shakespeare
      • Voice and performance skills
      • Writers and Writing
    • Performing arts general
      • Australian Screen Classics
      • Biography, History and Criticism
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Education
    • Currency House Books
      • Platform Papers
      • General Titles
    • What’s On Stage
  • Authors
    • Currency Authors
    • Nick Hern Authors
  • Playwrights’ Festival
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues/Price Lists
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
    • Educators
      • Syllabus Text Lists
      • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
    • Currency House
  • News
  • Account details
  • Orders
  • Addresses
  • Payment methods
  • Lost password
  • Login
  • Logout

Contact Us

Phone: +61 2 9319 5877

Mailing Address:
Suite 310, 46-56 Kippax Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010

Street Address:
Suite 310, 46-56 Kippax Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010
ABN: 75 000 938 929

General Enquiries:
[email protected]

Trade Enquiries: [email protected]

Cart

Search

2020 Copyright Currency Press