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1Need a Stage Coach? Why Some Plays Work, and Others Don’t 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 9 April 2015; 'We all know whether a given play, film or TV drama “works” or not, but it’s often difficult to pinpoint why. This is the first of four articles in which I will try and cast playwriting in a broader light than is usually the case.' (Author's introduction) -
2We Can’t Get Those Two Hours Back – Drama Works as Time Unfolds 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 April 2015; -
3Playwriting Doesn’t Get Better or Worse – but It Does Evolve 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 1 May 2015; -
4Australian Plays : How to Persuade a Nation to Question Its Own Soul? 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 12 May 2015; -
6Raising Chisel to Stone, and Making Art 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 5 August 2016; 'The first Australian National Playwrights Centre (ANPC) was founded in 1973 – the age of bongs, thongs and social wrongs. Australian drama was by then well into its Biggest Renaissance Ever. The Pram Factory and Nimrod Theatre had been going for three years, La Mama for five. Whitlam had doubled the arts budget and “Nugget” Coombs, the first Chair of the Australia Council, was managing the ballooning expectations this gave rise to. ...'
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