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Plays of the 60s: Volume 1

Plays of the 60s: Volume 1

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ISBN: 9780868195452
Author: Katharine Brisbane (ed.), Oriel Gray, Jack McKinney, Theodore Patrikareas, Patrick White
Publication Date: 15/6/2000
Edition: Standard
Publisher: Currency Press
Extent: 288pp.
Availability: POD Available

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SKU: BK413 Categories: CALD writer, Comedy, Currency Press, Drama, Indigenous themes, Multicultural themes, Play Collections, Plays, Plays by women, Poetic, Political / social themes Tags: Currency Press, Patrick White, Scripts
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Burst of Summer by Oriel Gray is a social-realist play dealing with racial prejudice set in a country milk bar. Suggested by the promotion of the Aboriginal actor Ngarla Kunoth, who played the title role in Charles Chauvel’s Jedda, the play explores a town divided over a new housing development for the Aboriginal population. Passions are stirred by press interest in Peggy, an Aboriginal girl who has won brief fame as a film actress. Despite the intercessions of a local black lawyer and Joe, the ‘dago’ cafe owner, the summer heat busts into violence.

The Well by Jack McKinney is a delightful country comedy that testifies to the impending end of the cultural isolation of rural life.

The Promised Woman by Theodore Patrikareas is possibly the first play by a post-war immigrant to be staged in Australia. Set in a boarding house in Sydney’s inner city suburb of Newtown, it captures the dislocation and problems of immigration as it tells the story of a strong young woman who finds a way to break free of traditional constraints. Displays the new world of the post-war immigrant.

The Season at Sarsaparilla by Patrick White is ‘a charade of suburbia’—a play of shadows, rather than substance. The neighbours of the play are held by their environment, waiting with determination, but little expectation, for the inevitable cycle of birth, copulation and death.

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