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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2024 recipient Australian Academy of the Humanities Fellowships and Medals — Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
- 2022 recipient National Library of Australia Fellowships — Supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust for Research in Australian Literature For 'Australian theatre artists of the 1930s & 1940s: Investigating the “Ribush Circle”'.
- 2019 recipient State Library Victoria Fellowship — Creative Fellowship for ‘Immigrant artists in Melbourne theatre in the interwar years: The case of Dolia and Rosa Ribush’—a research project exploring the character and activities of two culturally influential theatre artists
Awards for Works
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Angela's Kitchen
(Il-Kċina ta’ Angela)
2010
Strawberry Hills
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Currency Press
,
2012
Z1741987
2010
single work
drama
(taught in 1 units)
'In 1948, Angela left Malta. Having gathered up five children, she sailed out on the Strathnavar, leaving poverty and the war behind. Her destination: Australia. In Surry Hills, she could build a bright new life. If only she could first learn the language, finish shoring up their dilapidated house, find new friends, get the racist neighbour off her back and keep her son away from sly grog queen Kate Leigh's kids.
'Back in Malta, someone else has made a journey. Making his way along Kalkara's glistening harbourside, a young man with flowing black hair has returned to claim his past. Paul Capsis is walking home.
'A journey that begins at a kitchen table becomes a sprawling family history and a fitting tribute to a much-loved matriarch. Told simply and truthfully, Angela's Kitchen is an astonishingly evocative piece of autobiographical theatre from one of Australia's most versatile performers.'
Source: Griffin Theatre Company website, http://www.griffintheatre.com.au/
Sighted: 15/11/2010
Last amended 9 Dec 2019 09:33:30
