Australian Women’s Drama: Texts and Feminisms

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A collection of plays that charts some of the shifts in feminist thinking over the past twenty-five years and features some of Australia’s most renowned female dramatists.


Vocations
by Alma De Groen

Two women, a writer and an actress, must try to separate their vocations from the nesting instincts of their mates.


The Chapel Perilous
by Dorothy Hewett

The painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attempts—through her school days, lovers, marriage and politics—to extract meaning from her environment. Music by Frank Arndt.

The Chapel Perilous is also published as a single edition and is available in Dorothy Hewett's Collected Plays Volume I.


Historia
by Noëlle Janaczewska

A lesbian love affair between the Polish-born Zosia and the Australian Zoe invokes a powerful reconsideration of the boundaries placed around ethnicity and nationality, cyberspace and real time, and the past and the present.


Murras
by Eva Johnson

An Aboriginal woman, Ruby, struggles against hostile and racist society. She loses her husband to alcoholism induced by despair at the loss of his land and culture; and she loses her house under authoritarian governmental rehousing policies. She must face other terrible things, too, but the tragic events of her life are offset by her courageous strength.


Remember
by Jenny Kemp

Sustaining a tension between a mundane domesticity and the surreal, exotic projections of Moderna’s inner world, Remember investigates the long-term consequences of the experience of rape.


The Forty Lounge Cafe
by Tes Lyssiotis

A lyrical family story spanning three generations and two worlds.


Running Up A Dress
by Suzanne Spunner

A collage of performed selves, this play depicts the ‘wear and tear’ on mother-daughter relationships through linguistic exercises on the extended metaphor of dressmaking.

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