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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Devil's Playground
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'1988. Thirty-five years after Fred Schepisi's film The Devil's Playground, Tom Allen, now a psychiatrist, becomes a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, and is soon embroiled in political and theological intrigue.' (Source: Screen Australia)

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      Matchbox Pictures ,
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      image of person or book cover 8162622601997905181.jpg
      Screen cap from promotional trailer
      Extent: 6 x 47 min.; mini-seriesp.
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      • Broadcast by FOXTEL

Works about this Work

The Spoken and Unspoken Nature of Child Abuse in the Miniseries Devil's Playground : The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, The Catholic Church and Television Drama in Australia Terrie Waddell , Timothy W. Jones , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Media International Australia , vol. 159 no. 1 2016; (p. 83-93)

'In a departure from Fred Schepisi’s film The Devil’s Playground, the television sequel Devil’s Playground focuses on the cultural impact of priest child abuse. It will be argued that the prolific mainstream media coverage of these crimes before the series was made, and anticipated during its screening, lent a form of permission to green light the production. In focusing on Case 28 of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, this article will draw attention to the problematic nature of dramatising priest abuse in mainstream Australian television. While victims have willingly voiced graphic details of the sexual violence they experienced as children, after decades of silence, it is as if networks and producers are only now awkwardly grappling with these uncomfortable realities. In the process of sanitising such abusive behaviour, they reduce the degree of cruelty that survivors are intent on communicating.'

Source: Sage Publishing.

Hany Earns His Higher Ordination Neala Johnson , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 21 September 2014; (p. 6)
Why John is Relishing This Devilish Part Sheryl-Lee Kerr , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 7 September 2014; (p. 7)
Devil Inside Penelope Debelle , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 August 2014; (p. 31)
Simon Burke on Devil's Playground : 'We Couldn't Avoid Tackling Sexual Abuse' Amanda Meade , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 9 September 2014;

— Review of Devil's Playground Blake Ayshford , Alice Addison , Cate Shortland , Tommy Murphy , 2014 series - publisher film/TV
Devil's Work Revisited Giles Hardie , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 September 2014; (p. 7)

— Review of Devil's Playground Blake Ayshford , Alice Addison , Cate Shortland , Tommy Murphy , 2014 series - publisher film/TV
Twist In the Devil's Tale Graeme Blundell , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 September 2014; (p. 23)

— Review of Devil's Playground Blake Ayshford , Alice Addison , Cate Shortland , Tommy Murphy , 2014 series - publisher film/TV
The Last Word Andrew Fenton , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 7 September 2014; (p. 22)

— Review of Devil's Playground Blake Ayshford , Alice Addison , Cate Shortland , Tommy Murphy , 2014 series - publisher film/TV
Burke Finds Potent Muse in Past Devilry David Dale , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 7 September 2014; (p. 32)

— Review of Devil's Playground Blake Ayshford , Alice Addison , Cate Shortland , Tommy Murphy , 2014 series - publisher film/TV
Tangled Web Gillian Cumming , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 September 2014; (p. 23)

— Review of Devil's Playground Blake Ayshford , Alice Addison , Cate Shortland , Tommy Murphy , 2014 series - publisher film/TV
'What happened to young Tom Allen and the Catholic Church he ran from? Simon Burke tells Gillian Cumming how he re-acquainted himself with Tom for new television thriller Devil's Playground...'
Back in the Habit Nick Leys , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 5-6 July 2014; (p. 25-27)
Devilish Program is Set to Rise Again Penelope Debelle , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 July 2014; (p. 17)
You Don't Know Jack Darren Devlyn , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 3 September 2014; (p. 37)
'Jack Thompson as a conservative man of the cloth? Darren Devlyn finds the real person behind the role.
Devil Inside Penelope Debelle , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 August 2014; (p. 31)
Why John is Relishing This Devilish Part Sheryl-Lee Kerr , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 7 September 2014; (p. 7)
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