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In 'Scrambled Lives', Julie Lewis offers the following synopsis:
In 1976 Olga Masters had a play broadcast by the ABC, The Penny Ha'penny Stamp, in which a mother and her son conspire to allow the son to escape both an oppressive father and a restrictive rural environment. After he gets away the mother speaks - a long, wonderful Molly Bloom kind of monologue in which she confronts her husband (who is absent), telling him what she thinks of him and what she proposes to do to free herself. Then the husband comes home, makes a placatory gesture and she reverts to her former submissive role, getting his tea, praising him for his understanding.
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A radio play for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Sturdy Roots Bring Late Crop of Literary Blooms
Deborah Tarrant
(interviewer),
1983
single work
biography
interview
criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 15-16 October 1983; (p. 16)
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Sturdy Roots Bring Late Crop of Literary Blooms
Deborah Tarrant
(interviewer),
1983
single work
biography
interview
criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 15-16 October 1983; (p. 16)
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