AustLit
Texts
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y Too Young for Ghosts Sydney : Currency Press Stage Company , 1985 Z27945 1985 single work drama (taught in 2 units)
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y The Time is Not Yet Ripe : A Comedy in Four Acts Melbourne : Fraser and Jenkinson , 1912 Z855849 1912 single work drama humour (taught in 2 units)
The action takes place in Melbourne in the weeks leading up to a federal election. The Women’s Anti-Socialist League have selected Doris Quiverton—daughter of the conservative Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Quiverton—to stand for the seat of Wombat. However, no sooner than Doris learns that she has been selected, her fiancé, Sydney Barrett, reveals that he is competing for the same seat. A socialist and an atheist, Barrett opposes everything both Doris’ Liberal father and the Women’s Anti-Socialist League stand for. Doris must carefully navigate extreme political ideals and intense personal relationships.
"That hilarious comedy, "The Time is Not Ripe," published in 1912, is rather a breathless play, in which the political distractions of that era are complicated by the invention of a love affair between the socialist leader and the daughter of his principal opponent."
The Daily Mercury (1943). Louis Esson. [online] p.2. Available [Accessed 5 Mar. 2018].
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Historia 1996 single work drama (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: Australian Women's Drama : Texts and Feminisms 1997; (p. 254-284) 'Historia' is a fusion of poetry, Polish, and electronic notation that examines love and the social forces with which it struggles to co-exist, and explores the patterns of both personal and cultural histories that determine self-identity.' (Source: Metro Arts mid-May update). -
y Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America : A Drama in 30 Scenes Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2003 Z1037273 2003 single work drama (taught in 3 units)
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y Don's Party 1971 1971 (Manuscript version)x402002 Z1505961 1971 single work drama satire (taught in 17 units)
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y The Season at Sarsaparilla : A Charade of Suburbia in Two Acts 1962 (Manuscript version)x400826 Z865952 1962 single work drama (taught in 11 units)
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y The Dreamers Paddington : Currency Press , 1996 Z450251 1982 single work drama (taught in 18 units)
— Appears in: ドリーマーズ : ノー・シュガー 2006;'With humane irony the Western Australian poet, Jack Davis gives a painful insight into the process of colonisation and the transformation of his people.'
'The Dreamers is the story of a country-town family and old Uncle Worru, who in his dying days, recedes from urban hopelessness to the life and language of the Nyoongah spirit which in him has survived 'civilisation'.' (Currency Press website)
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y Rusty Bugles 1948 (Manuscript version)x400830 Z254884 1948 single work drama war literature (taught in 1 units)