Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Away (Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre)
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'Away reached the dubious status of ‘Australian Classic’ in a remarkably short period of time. It has become so ubiquitous that I would hazard a guess that fully two thirds of the Australian audience for this production who are under thirty will have been involved with the play either as performers, audience, or students. In the keynote address (‘The Agony and the Agony’) at the National Play Festival that Michael Gow gave in July 2016, required reading for anyone interested in theatre, he describes his ambivalent feelings about having written a work that has become a perennial set text – a sure way of having the life drained out of it. He also says, ‘for me Away is a play about death. In fact it’s an AIDS play, though I didn’t know it at the time.’' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon ABR : Arts Australian Book Review : Arts 2017 13909134 2017 periodical issue 2017
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  • Away Michael Gow , 1986 single work drama
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