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* Contents derived from the
Brisbane,
Queensland,:Playlab
, 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Harriers,
single work
drama
'The play concerns a difficult situation between an injured Australian Aid doctor who is captured by a group of "freedom fighters". The doctor is rather naïve in her outlook and the freedom fighters rather myopic in theirs - with the result that there is much tension and discussion across a divided class, cultural and language barrier that ultimately ends in tragedy.' http://www.abc.net.au/brisbane/stories/s1149523.htm (Sighted 27/08/04)
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The Knowing of Mary Poppins
The Great Exception, or, The Knowing of Mary Poppins,
single work
drama
'Explores the many lives of P.L. Travers, the Queensland-born writer of Mary Poppins. Travers remade herself and her history countless times throughout her life. She was also an actress, a writer of erotic poetry, a journalist and a spiritualist. Before she was 'Disney-fied', Travers' Mary Poppins was a study in contradictions: comforting and threatening; conventional and peculiar; down to earth and literally out of this world. As contradictory as her heroine, Travers sought order via her spiritual practices, but lived her life in a way that propelled her from one extreme to another. Punctuated by the biographical details of Travers' life, this new work follows the transformation of memory and experience into story, inviting the audience into the surreal world of her imagination, at twilight, in the crack between day and night, where enchantment and magic and fairy tale characters come out to play. ' (Brisbane Powerhouse Visy Theatre website http://www.diningout.com.au/show_event.asp?fmt=b&event_id=10564 sighted 17.8.05)
- Post Office Rose, single work drama (p. 103-171)
- Magda's Fascination with Wax Cats, single work drama (p. 172-221)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 56 2010; (p. 242-244)
— Review of Independent Brisbane : Four Plays 2008 anthology drama
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Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 56 2010; (p. 242-244)
— Review of Independent Brisbane : Four Plays 2008 anthology drama
Last amended 4 Oct 2017 13:13:04