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'Julian Meyrick’s Australia in 50 Plays surveys Australian drama from 1901 to 2020. With Federation and the destabilising Covid-19 years as bookends, Meyrick sets out to describe how plays contribute to ‘nationhood’. He explains, ‘The problem of picking plays from the 40 years after Federation is a problem of discovery. The problem of picking them from the last 40 years is a problem of choice’ (16–17). The book successfully skirts its curatorial challenge, taking a position as a ‘history of the nation seen through the lens of some of its plays’ (17). Inviting readers to engage on these terms, Meyrick calls for a renovation of nationhood as distinct from a deadly nationalism.'
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