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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Selected Plays
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Three landmark plays from the renaissance of Australian playwriting: 'White with Wire Wheels' was the first play to examine the insecurity inherent in the male culture of women and cars; 'Dimboola', a Rabelaisian account of a country wedding; Monk O'Neill, of 'A Stretch of the Imagination' has become an archetype of Australian character.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Jocelyn

Contents

* Contents derived from the Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,:Currency Press , 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, Paul McGillick , single work criticism (p. vii-xviii)
White with Wire Wheels, Jack Hibberd , single work drama (p. 1-64)
Dimboola : A Wedding Reception Play, Jack Hibberd , single work musical theatre humour

Playfully vulgar, bawdy and boisterous, Dimboola plays out the wedding reception from hell, with the audience actively playing the roles of the guests. A celebration as much as a satire, the play joyously takes a familiar ritual and turns it uproariously on its head.

Source: Currency Press

(http://www.currency.com.au/search.aspx?type=author&author=Jack+Hibberd)

(p. 65-106)
A Stretch of the Imagination, Jack Hibberd , single work drama (p. 107-148)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

[Review] Spurboard [et al] Donald Pulford , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , no. 2 2001;

— Review of Spurboard Nick Enright , 2001 single work drama ; Selected Plays Jack Hibberd , 2000 selected work drama ; Radiance : The Play + The Screenplay Louis Nowra , 2000 selected work drama screenplay
Gargoyles and Gore Thérèse Radic , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 226 2000; (p. 23-24)

— Review of Selected Plays Jack Hibberd , 2000 selected work drama ; Melbourne Stories : Three Plays Andrew Bovell , Belinda Bradley , Raimondo Cortese , 2000 anthology single work drama ; Who's Afraid of the Working Class? Andrew Bovell , Patricia Cornelius , Melissa Reeves , Christos Tsiolkas , 1998 single work drama ; Polly Blue Belinda Bradley , 2000 single work drama ; Features of Blown Youth Raimondo Cortese , 1997 single work drama
Gargoyles and Gore Thérèse Radic , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 226 2000; (p. 23-24)

— Review of Selected Plays Jack Hibberd , 2000 selected work drama ; Melbourne Stories : Three Plays Andrew Bovell , Belinda Bradley , Raimondo Cortese , 2000 anthology single work drama ; Who's Afraid of the Working Class? Andrew Bovell , Patricia Cornelius , Melissa Reeves , Christos Tsiolkas , 1998 single work drama ; Polly Blue Belinda Bradley , 2000 single work drama ; Features of Blown Youth Raimondo Cortese , 1997 single work drama
[Review] Spurboard [et al] Donald Pulford , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , no. 2 2001;

— Review of Spurboard Nick Enright , 2001 single work drama ; Selected Plays Jack Hibberd , 2000 selected work drama ; Radiance : The Play + The Screenplay Louis Nowra , 2000 selected work drama screenplay
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