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Details of Works Taught
| Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
y
Damage : A Collection of Plays
Sydney
:
Currency Press
,
2010
Z1709452
2010
selected work
drama
(taught in 3 units)
'This collection, introduced by John McCallum, includes three previously unpublished works: Jonah, a Brechtian musical reinvention of Louis Stone's novel of the same name; Top End, a political drama set in Darwin during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, and Lost Weekend which takes a class-based look at 'Australianess'. They are published together with Romeril's best-known play, The Floating World, the story of a returned serviceman's descent into madness on a cruise ship bound for Japan. 'Romeril's writing conveys the immediacy of the times that stems from his beginnings as an agitprop writer, but he focuses on everyday lives. The plays in Damage explore the twentieth century stresses and strains, the damage we do and the damage done to us.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Australian Theatre and Performance | University of Melbourne | 2013 (Semester 2) |
|
y
Damage : A Collection of Plays
Sydney
:
Currency Press
,
2010
Z1709452
2010
selected work
drama
(taught in 3 units)
'This collection, introduced by John McCallum, includes three previously unpublished works: Jonah, a Brechtian musical reinvention of Louis Stone's novel of the same name; Top End, a political drama set in Darwin during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, and Lost Weekend which takes a class-based look at 'Australianess'. They are published together with Romeril's best-known play, The Floating World, the story of a returned serviceman's descent into madness on a cruise ship bound for Japan. 'Romeril's writing conveys the immediacy of the times that stems from his beginnings as an agitprop writer, but he focuses on everyday lives. The plays in Damage explore the twentieth century stresses and strains, the damage we do and the damage done to us.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Australian Theatre and performance | University of Melbourne | 2014 (Semester 2) |
|
y
Damage : A Collection of Plays
Sydney
:
Currency Press
,
2010
Z1709452
2010
selected work
drama
(taught in 3 units)
'This collection, introduced by John McCallum, includes three previously unpublished works: Jonah, a Brechtian musical reinvention of Louis Stone's novel of the same name; Top End, a political drama set in Darwin during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, and Lost Weekend which takes a class-based look at 'Australianess'. They are published together with Romeril's best-known play, The Floating World, the story of a returned serviceman's descent into madness on a cruise ship bound for Japan. 'Romeril's writing conveys the immediacy of the times that stems from his beginnings as an agitprop writer, but he focuses on everyday lives. The plays in Damage explore the twentieth century stresses and strains, the damage we do and the damage done to us.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Australian Theatre and Performance | University of Melbourne | 2016 (Semester 2) |
| Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
|
y
The Floating World
1974
(Manuscript version)x400870
Z498503
1974
single work
drama
(taught in 11 units)
Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia.. Source: Currency Press (http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=210) |
Staging Australia | Queensland University of Technology | 2013 (Semester 2) |
|
y
The Floating World
1974
(Manuscript version)x400870
Z498503
1974
single work
drama
(taught in 11 units)
Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia.. Source: Currency Press (http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=210) |
Staging Australia | Queensland University of Technology | 2012 (Semester 2) |
|
y
The Floating World
1974
(Manuscript version)x400870
Z498503
1974
single work
drama
(taught in 11 units)
Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia.. Source: Currency Press (http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=210) |
Staging Australia | Queensland University of Technology | 2015 (Semester 2) |
|
y
The Floating World
1974
(Manuscript version)x400870
Z498503
1974
single work
drama
(taught in 11 units)
Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia.. Source: Currency Press (http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=210) |
Australian Theatre and performance | University of Melbourne | 2014 (Semester 2) |
|
y
The Floating World
1974
(Manuscript version)x400870
Z498503
1974
single work
drama
(taught in 11 units)
Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia.. Source: Currency Press (http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=210) |
Australian Theatre and Performance | University of Melbourne | 2015 (Semester 2) |
|
y
The Floating World
1974
(Manuscript version)x400870
Z498503
1974
single work
drama
(taught in 11 units)
Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia.. Source: Currency Press (http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=210) |
Australian Theatre History | University of New England | 2009 |
|
y
The Floating World
1974
(Manuscript version)x400870
Z498503
1974
single work
drama
(taught in 11 units)
Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia.. Source: Currency Press (http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=210) |
Australia on Stage | University of New England | 2011 |
|
y
The Floating World
1974
(Manuscript version)x400870
Z498503
1974
single work
drama
(taught in 11 units)
Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia.. Source: Currency Press (http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=210) |
Australia on Stage | University of New England | 2016 (Semester 1) |
|
y
The Floating World
1974
(Manuscript version)x400870
Z498503
1974
single work
drama
(taught in 11 units)
Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia.. Source: Currency Press (http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=210) |
Australian Texts: International Contexts | University of Sydney | 2010 (Semester 1) |
|
y
The Floating World
1974
(Manuscript version)x400870
Z498503
1974
single work
drama
(taught in 11 units)
Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia.. Source: Currency Press (http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=210) |
Australian Texts: International Contexts | University of Sydney | 2008 (Semester 1) |
|
y
The Floating World
1974
(Manuscript version)x400870
Z498503
1974
single work
drama
(taught in 11 units)
Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia.. Source: Currency Press (http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=210) |
Australian Texts: International Contexts | University of Sydney | 2009 (Semester 1) |
| Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
|
y
Miss Tanaka
Strawberry Hills
Melbourne
:
Currency Press
Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University
,
2001
Z819617
2001
single work
drama
(taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: ミス・タナカ : 心中 : ラブ・スーサイズ 2012; |
Honours Seminar 4 (English) | University of Western Australia | 2009 (Semester 1, Semester 2) |
| Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
|
form
y
One Night the Moon
( dir. Rachel Perkins
)
Australia
:
Music Arts Dance Films
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
,
2001
Z935161
2001
single work
film/TV
(taught in 1 units)
A young girl goes missing within the Australian landscape and her father refuses to let an Aboriginal man, Albert, be included in the search party and utilise his 'tracking' skills. It is a decision that proves fatal. Months later, the child's mother approaches Albert to begin the tracking process that eventually leads her to her lost child. |
Australian Cinema and Television | University of New South Wales | 2010 (Semester 1) |
| Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
|
y
Plays
Harmondsworth
Ringwood
:
Penguin
,
1970
Z826268
1970
anthology
drama
(taught in 1 units)
|
Australian Drama | University of Southern Queensland | 2012 (Semester 1) |
