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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Shimada
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When a Japanese businessman appears unexpectedly at a family-owned Queensland bicycle factory, the promise of a take-over sharply divides the company. At the centre is Clive-accountant, family friend and former prisoner of war. As the sale progresses and the workers take strike action, Clive, increasingly angry and isolated, begins to recognise in his adversary his tormentor, the cruel officer Shimada. Shimada is a play about cultural conflict, between the old world of military dominance and the new world of economic pragmatism.(Publisher's blurb, back cover).

Notes

  • Introduction: The increasing Japanese 'occupation' of parts of Australia continues to be an emotional issue, regardless of the political and economic rationale behind it. In Shimada, Jill Shearer takes a brave and essentially human look at the situation, never forgetting that it is in the individual experience that the political phenomenon is most keenly felt....Simon Phillips. Wellington, 1989.

Production Details

    • First performed as a playreading by Melbourne Theatre Company, 25 April 1987.
    • Produced on Broadway, New York in 1992.
    • Produced at the Brisbane Arts Theatre, 1998.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1987 .
      Extent: [2], 57lp.p.
      Description: Typescript (photocopy)
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H1609
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Act of Healing Patricia Kelly , 2004 single work review
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— Review of Sandakan Threnody 2002 single work musical theatre
Lively Art, Dismal Science : A Century of Queensland Playwriting Paul Galloway , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 200-213)
High Drama Phil Brown , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 11 December 2002; (p. 14)
y separately published work icon Nowhere But Broadway Jill Shearer , Ashgrove : J. Shearer , 2002 Z998892 2002 single work autobiography
Family Values Angela Bennie , 1996 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 May 1996; (p. 13s)
Dated Dreams and Unchanging Memories Jennifer Ellison , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 12 May vol. 109 no. 5569 1987; (p. 82)
— Review of The Hope Heather Nimmo , 1987 single work drama ; Shimada Jill Shearer , 1987 single work drama
Untitled Veronica Kelly , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 17 1990; (p. 224-227)
— Review of Shimada Jill Shearer , 1987 single work drama
Obloquy and Soliloquy Sue Gough , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 24 July vol. 112 no. 5728 1990; (p. 118)
— Review of Shimada Jill Shearer , 1987 single work drama
Fighting an Old War on a New Front Rosemary Neill , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 9 July 1990; (p. 9)
— Review of Shimada Jill Shearer , 1987 single work drama
y separately published work icon Nowhere But Broadway Jill Shearer , Ashgrove : J. Shearer , 2002 Z998892 2002 single work autobiography
High Drama Phil Brown , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 11 December 2002; (p. 14)
Act of Healing Patricia Kelly , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 August 2004; (p. 5)
— Review of Sandakan Threnody 2002 single work musical theatre
Lively Art, Dismal Science : A Century of Queensland Playwriting Paul Galloway , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 200-213)
Telling it in Multiple Layers: An Interview with Jill Shearer Helen Gilbert (interviewer), 1992 single work interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 21 1992; (p. 138-153)
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Last amended 6 Jul 2007 14:00:23
Subjects:
  • c
    Japan,
    c
    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Queensland,
Settings:
  • 1940s
  • 1980s
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