Not in Print: playwrights off script - on inspiration, process and theatre itself
Arts:Performing Arts
In 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp deep in the jungles of Sumatra where thousands of women and children had lived and died virtually forgotten by their own governments. Now, after being separated for half a century, the filming of a television documentary forces them to relive the past, contact the present and question the future.
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After working as a solicitor, John Misto changed direction; he decided to become a writer. That career change eventually led to The Shoe-Horn Sonata. It is dense, shocking and poignant - a piece of narrative non-fiction that depicts real life events with a solicitors’ attention to factual detail and a storyteller’s understanding of how emotional truths must be drawn out through narrative construction. The play won the 1995 NSW Premier’s Literary Award, but John was (perhaps) more satisfied that it had rung true for the WWII nurses whose story he was sharing with the world.
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'The law of sexual assault spins on the wrong axis': Suzie Miller on her play, Prima Facie
Fangirling over FANGIRLS with Yve Blake
'Counting and Cracking': in conversation with S. Shakthidharan
'For We The Young': Finegan Kruckemeyer on writing plays for children and young people
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A Town Named War Boy
An Ever Changing Idiom - Alana Valentine's response to Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, by Ray Lawler
Introduction to Brumby Innes and Bid Me to Love - Ric Throssel
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On Dramaturgy and Emerging Artists l Advice for up and coming playwrights
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Emerald City: Fame and greed in the merry old land of Aus l Classic Australian theatre
The Secret River: Our history is contested space l Classic Australian theatre
Brothers Wreck: How many people does it take for us to live? l Award-winning Australian theatre
Shafana & Aunt Sarrinah: What do you do when you disagree with someone you love? l Provocative Australian theatre
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