Mona Brand
Mona Brand was born in 1915. She has written on a wide variety of topics, usually of social relevance and often new to Australian playwriting. Her major work, Here Under Heaven (1948) tackles the dilemma faced by a Chinese war bride in Australia. It …
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Here Under Heaven
Racism and gender bias are the twin prejudices of Mrs Hamilton, matriarch of a Queensland property …
Author:
Mona Brand
Publisher:
Currency Press
John Romeril
John Romeril has been a prolific writer whose early plays include the major works I Don’t Know Who To Feel Sorry For, Chicago, Chicago and The Floating World. Other plays are Mrs Thally F, Carboni, The Kelly Dance, Lost Weekend, Black Cargo, Bring …
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The Floating World
The story of a returned serviceman's descent into madness on a cruise ship bound for Japan.
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Year:
Secondary, Year 11, Year 12
Author:
John Romeril
Publisher:
Currency Press
Published year:
1975
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Dimboola
Playfully vulgar, bawdy and boisterous, Dimboola plays out the wedding reception from hell, with …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Author:
Jack Hibberd
Publisher:
Currency Press
Published year:
1968
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Jack Hibberd
Jack Hibberd is one of the most innovative Australian playwrights of his generation. His career began in 1967 and his prolific output extends vigorously into the new century. His early plays have endured the test of time and continue to be performed…
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Richard Frankland
Richard Frankland is a filmmaker, musician, poet and activist. He has been an artist for over forty years. As a Field Investigator for the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody in the late 1980s, he was left with an urge to change attitudes…
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Conversations with the Dead
Imagine that you're a Koorie, that you're in your mid-twenties, that your job is to look into the …
Author:
Richard Frankland
Publisher:
Currency Press
Published year:
2002
Dorothy Hewett
Dorothy Hewett achieved distinction as a playwright, poet and novelist. Her stage works include The Chapel Perilous, Mrs Porter and the Angels, Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly, The Golden Oldies, Pandora's Cross, The Man from Mukinupin, Golden Valley, …
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The Chapel Perilous
The painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attempts – …
Year:
Tertiary
Author:
Dorothy Hewett
Publisher:
Currency Press
Published year:
1972
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