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Susan Fereday Susan Fereday i(A37256 works by) (birth name: Susan Ruth Koch) (a.k.a. Susan Ruth Fereday)
Born: Established: 1959 Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 1 y separately published work icon I Fall in Love with a Beautiful Newcomer Hiding a Deadly Secret Susan Fereday , Melbourne : Susan Fereday , 2000 Z971300 2000 single work novella
1 y separately published work icon Lost in Amsterdam, but Losing the Need for Maps Jeffrey Fereday , St Kilda : Susan Fereday , 1996 Z36033 1996 single work novel
1 Mother Nature Susan Fereday , 1996 single work prose
— Appears in: Motherlode 1996; (p. 118-119)
1 y separately published work icon A Slow Exit (He is Going to Die) : A Play in Two Acts for Five Performers Jeffrey Fereday , Susan Fereday (editor), 1987 Melbourne : Susan Fereday , 2013 6485085 1987 single work drama

'Five seasoned actors emerge from a maelstrom of discarded theatre sets, costumes and props.

'The actors preen themselves shamelessly and snack furtively. They cast insults and quarrel. From time to time they strike-up impromptu performances with poorly recalled fragments of Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Bizet, Brecht, Chekhov, Ionesco, Pinter, Miller, Warhol, Williams, Wilde, Wilder, TV soaps . . . They experiment with the acting methods of Stanislavsky, Strasberg . . . and the movement styles of Delsarte, Laban . . . The dramas that ensue are strangely fascinating and frequently hilarious.

'But their parodies take an existential turn as they gradually awaken to their predicament.

In this theatre of ruins, the performers are not lost for words but lost for meaning.' (Publisher's blurb)
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