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This play 'consists of four simple narratives interwoven in their telling to form a dark portrait of contemporary life: A series of letters to an old lover, a one-sided conversation with a therapist, phone calls to an answering machine, a statement to police - all forms of communication travelling in the one direction. All unanswered cries for help. Bovell's stories are about secrets, real and imagined, and how they can poison relationships. This play is the basis from which he wrote the screenplay for the celebrated film, Lantana. (ABC Radio National)
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Broadcast on ABC Radio National's Airplay on 20 August 2006 and on 6 April 2008.
Production Details
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First performed at La Mama Theatre, Melbourne in 1994.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Related Works
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form
y
Lantana
( dir. Ray Lawrence
)
Sydney
:
Jan Chapman Productions
,
2001
Z900877
2001
single work
film/TV
thriller
(taught in 6 units)
'A woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death. Not all of them survive. LANTANA is a psychological thriller about love. It's about the mistakes we make, the consequences we suffer, and the attempts we make to fix things up.'
Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 4/12/2013)
Last amended 7 Apr 2008 12:21:15
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