Lorna single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Lorna
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

A monologue delivered by Lorna, a single alcoholic mother who is blind. She is on trial for child neglect after she called the police reporting her missing daughter, Ruby. Ruby turns out to have collapsed in a closet at home, malnourished and with scarlet fever. Lorna defends herself in court.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability

    Blindness.

    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view Third person (drama).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
First performed as part of `Confidentially Yours' by the Playbox Theatre Centre at the C.U.B. Malthouse in Melbourne on 11 February 1998
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