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Visions

Visions

By Louis Nowra
ISBN
9780868190266
Publisher
Currency Press
Publication Date
20 July 1978
Edition
Standard
Format
Paperback
Availability
Available
Categories
Plays
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Description

Set in Paraguay during the 1860s War of the Triple Alliance. The megalomaniac President Lopez has married Madame Lynch, a Parisian courtesan. His ignorance and her egotism together bring ruin on the country and themselves. Against this violent background of bungled diplomacy, death and superstition, is set an allegory of conflicting values, where visions of the civilised arts of peace sacrifice a nation to its own barbarity.

Biography
Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra

LOUIS NOWRA's plays have been performed here, in Europe, England, Asia and North America. They include Inner Voices, Visions, Inside the Island, Sunrise, The Golden Age, Capricornia, Byzantine Flowers, The Watchtower, Summer of the Aliens, Cosi, Radiance, The Temple, Crow, The Incorruptible, The Jungle, Language of the Gods, The Boyce Trilogy. Some non-fiction works are Walkabout, Chihuahuas, Women and Me, Kings Cross, and its companion volumes, Woolloomooloo and Sydney. His novels comprise, The Misery of Beauty, Palu, Red Nights, Abaza, Ice , Prince of Afghanistan. The Twelfth of Never and Shooting the Moon are his memoirs. Radio plays for the ABC and BBC include The Song Room, Far North, Jez and The Light of Darkness. He was the principal writer for the documentary series First Australians and created the TV series The Last Resort and The Straits. Besides writing libretti, and the telemovies Displaced Persons and The Lizard King, his screen credits include Map of the Human Heart, Cosi, Heaven’s Burning, Radiance, K-19 and Black and White. His most recent works are Collected Stories, the Audible dramas The Goodbye Party, Beatrice Dark, The Divine Hammer and the play, This Much is True.

Louis Nowra's Other Books (6)
Book Data
Cast Info 5F, 6M, 7O, (doubling available)
Genres Drama
Themes Political/Social themes, Large Cast
Audiences Adult
Extent 98
Edition Standard
Size 202 x 128
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