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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Performing 1971 : Dorothy Hewett’s ‘The Chapel Perilous’
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'It is eight o'clock in the evening on the 21 January, 1971, and the heat from an 100-plus degree day dissipates in the night air. Dorothy Hewett's third serious play, The Chapel Perilous, is opening at The New Fortune Theatre. Built as a fourth wall to the Arts Building at the University of Western Australia in 1964, The New Fortune is a multi-storey outdoor space designed as an Elizabethan stage. The play's director is Aaren Neeme, a young, sympathetic collaborator with whom Hewett has been working closely in rehearsals. .. (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 61 no. 2 2016 10610146 2016 periodical issue 2016 pg. 126-143
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