Welcome to our new website. Existing customers: please reset your password to access your account.

After Dinner

After Dinner

By Andrew Bovell
ISBN
9780868195186
Publisher
Currency Press
Publication Date
3 May 1989
Edition
Standard
Format
Paperback
Availability
Available
Categories
Plays
$25.99
Request reading copy
Description

'... an Australian comedy of sharp and black social comment, full of wry insights ...' —Mick Barnes, Sun-Herald

A suburban pub bistro on Friday night. Three office workers—Dympie, who needs to control everything, Paula, who lets her, and the recently widowed Monika, are desperately seeking a good night out. At an adjoining table sit Gordon, recently abandoned by his wife, and Stephen, looking for something more than the usual onenight stand.

As the night proceeds, inhibitions and social restraint are abandoned, exposing the foibles, pain and humour of the characters’ inner lives. It is an acutely observed but tender-hearted account of relationships and behaviour.

Biography
Andrew Bovell
Andrew Bovell

ANDREW BOVELL is a writer renowned for his work in theatre, film, and television. His theatre credits include Song of First Desire (Belvoir), Canción Del Primer Deseo, (Teatro La Abadia, Madrid), Things I Know to Be True (Belvoir St Theatre, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Frantic Assembly, Black Swan Theatre, Teatro Stabile Turino), Anthem (Melbourne Arts Centre, Sydney and Perth Festivals), an adaptation of The Secret River (Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival, Edinburgh Festival, National Theatre London), When the Rain Stops Falling (Brink, Adelaide Festival, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Almeida Theatre, Lincoln Centre, NYC) His screen credits include, A Most Wanted Man, Edge of Darkness, Blessed, Lantana, based on his award-winning stage play Speaking in Tongues, and Head On. Andrew has received the David Williamson Prize for The Secret River, and the AWGIE Best Stage Play for Speaking in Tongues, Who’s Afraid of the Working Class, Holy Day and When the Rain Stops Falling. This play won Five Lucille Lortell awards in New York, and was named Time Magazines Nest New Play. Lantana won seven AFI Awards, the AWGIE for Best Screenplay, and five Film Critics’ Circle of Australia Awards.

Andrew Bovell's Other Books (9)
Book Data
Cast Info 3F, 2M
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance, Naturalism / realism
Themes Full length play, Significant female roles
Audiences Adult, Young Adult, Secondary: Years 11-12
Extent 74
Edition Standard
Size 137 x 210 mm
Resources

We have compiled a list of resources for this book.

Logo
Sign up to our Newsletter

Stay connected and updated to the happenings at Currency Press

We will never share your email with others