Sanctuary single work   drama   - Two acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Sanctuary
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Sanctuary is the story of Australia's most successful expatriate journalist cum foreign affairs commentator, Mr Robert 'Bob' King, who has made a career for himself as a distinguished journalist with Time magazine and then moved to anchorman on CBS. He comes home to Australia to live in relative isolation at the age of 48 in Sanctuary Cove. Nobody can quite understand this move. A young Ph.D. student comes up to check facts about the biography he is writing about Mr Bob King's life. Mr King is canny enough to realise that the biography is probably not going to be totally favourable but he gets a shock when he realises just how unfavourable the biography is.

It is a look at the way our so-called free press is actually a fairly tightly controlled and un-free press; it's also a look at the way we lie about the nature of our achievements in our life. The conflict between the two protagonists on these issues gets quite acute. David Williamson.(ii).

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Sanctuary David Williamson , ( dir. Robin De Crespigny ) Australia : Spandau Films , 1995 Z1606917 1995 single work film/TV

Robert 'Bob' King is a TV reporter with an international reputation, home from the US after years spent covering major conflicts. John is an academic who has written a book exposing the lies of Bob's career and has come to confront him about them. It's a conflict of style as well as substance: the rich, physically imposing Bob and the nerdy, sweating John. At heart, the film is about ruthlessness, specifically the point at which someone trades honesty for personal gain.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Felix

Production Details

  • First produced by the Playbox Theatre Centre, C.U.B. Malthouse,Melbourne, 4 May 1994. Director: Aubrey Mellor.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Paddington, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Melbourne, Victoria,:Currency Press ,Playbox Theatre , 1994 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, John Pilger , single work column (p. iv)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Paddington, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Melbourne, Victoria,: Currency Press ; Playbox Theatre , 1994 .
      Extent: vi, 48pp.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0868193852 (pbk)
      Series: Current Theatre Series Currency Press (publisher), 1983- series - publisher 'Current Theatre Series consists of Australian plays published with the program inserted and sold during theatre seasons. The aim of the series is to promote and encourage new dramatic writing and make it accessible to theatregoers and the public. The text is presented at the first day of rehearsal and does not contain changes which the author may choose to make after the play has commenced its present season - these will be incorporated into any new edition published by Currency.' Currency Press.
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Works about this Work

The Insidious David Williamson Peter Coleman , 1998 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , March no. 174 1998; (p. 21)
Untitled David Eggleton , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Listener (NZ) , 9 December 1996;
— Review of Sanctuary David Williamson , 1994 single work drama
[Review] Sanctuary [and] Falling from Grace Helen Thomson , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 28 1996; (p. 170-173)
— Review of Sanctuary David Williamson , 1994 single work drama ; Falling from Grace Hannie Rayson , 1994 single work drama
Media Drawn Under the Williamson Pen Ron Banks , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 25 October 1995; (p. 4)
Untitled Reg Graham , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Star-Times , 29 October 1995;
— Review of Sanctuary David Williamson , 1994 single work drama
Culminating in Death Simon Clews , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 168 1995; (p. 54-55)
— Review of Sanctuary David Williamson , 1994 single work drama ; Remember Ronald Ryan Barry Dickins , 1994 single work drama
[Review] Sanctuary [and] Falling from Grace Helen Thomson , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 28 1996; (p. 170-173)
— Review of Sanctuary David Williamson , 1994 single work drama ; Falling from Grace Hannie Rayson , 1994 single work drama
[Review] Sanctuary [and] Cosi Helen Thomson , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 May 1994; (p. 17)
— Review of Sanctuary David Williamson , 1994 single work drama ; Cosi Louis Nowra , 1992 single work musical theatre
Moral Crusade with No White Knight Leonard Radic , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 May 1994; (p. 17)
— Review of Sanctuary David Williamson , 1994 single work drama
Cross-Examination Falls Short of Tension John Larkin , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 15 May 1994; (p. 7)
— Review of Sanctuary David Williamson , 1994 single work drama ; Cosi Louis Nowra , 1992 single work musical theatre
Introduction John Pilger , 1994 single work column
— Appears in: Sanctuary 1994; (p. iv) The Great Man : Sanctuary : Two Plays 2000; (p. 77-78)
Quiet Crusader Nikki Barrowclough , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 16 July 1994; (p. 14-15)
A Homecoming for Williamson Mike Daly , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 April 1994; (p. 15)
Media Drawn Under the Williamson Pen Ron Banks , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 25 October 1995; (p. 4)
The Play's the Thing Raymond Gill , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 30 April 1994; (p. 11)
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  • Sanctuary Cove, Hope Island - Sanctuary Cove area, Gold Coast, Queensland,
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