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Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 Fortune
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Set in the Australian goldfields of the 1860s -- a world of travelling freak shows, grave robbing, convicts, angels of retribution and Chinese opera -- Fortune tells the story of Chang the 'Tartar Monster'. Eleven years old, 7 feet tall and alone in the world, Chang is enslaved to the cruel Reinhardt, who sells his appearance, at fourpence a time, for souvenir snapshots. Into his life comes Kathleen, Irish, newly free, determined and a passionate survivor. Finally treated as a human being, Chang begins to turn the tables. Showing how readily society's oppressed embrace the role of oppressor. Through richly wrought prose and controlled flights into non-naturalistic realms, Bell probes the complexities of racial prejudice and cultural difference, whilst unsentimentally scrutinising the universal surge for survival (2 acts, 2 men, 3 women).

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Notes

  • Introduced by John McCallum and David Goodman.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Gigantism.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view First person.

Production Details

  • First performed at NIDA in Sydney in 1990 and at the Stables Theatre, Sydney, 30 April 1993. Also produced in Hawaii.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Paddington, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,:Currency Press , 1995 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Intercultural Salad, John McCallum , single work review
— Review of Fortune Hilary Bell , 1995 single work drama ;
(p. 7-8)
A Market for Otherness, David Goodman , single work review
— Review of Fortune Hilary Bell , 1995 single work drama ;
(p. 9-11)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Language: French

Works about this Work

Plays Offer "Asian-Pacific Interface" Dennis Carroll , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 11 no. 1 1997; (p. 63-64,65)

— Review of Heretic : Based on the Life of Derek Freeman David Williamson , 1996 single work drama ; Fortune Hilary Bell , 1995 single work drama ; Pacific Union : The Story of the San Francisco Forty-Fivers Alex Buzo , 1995 single work drama
Actors Battle to Show Point Richard Waller , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 May 1996; (p. 13)

— Review of Fortune Hilary Bell , 1995 single work drama
Untitled Jacqueline Lo , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 29 1996; (p. 210-216)

— Review of The Gap Anna Broinowski , 1995 single work drama ; Fortune Hilary Bell , 1995 single work drama
Misery Spawns a Big Play of Good Fortune 1996 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 May 1996; (p. 18)
A Market for Otherness David Goodman , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Fortune 1995; (p. 9-11)

— Review of Fortune Hilary Bell , 1995 single work drama
At Sixes and Sevens Brian Hoad , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 1 June vol. 115 no. 5872 1993; (p. 90)

— Review of Dead Heart Nicholas Parsons , 1994 single work drama ; Fortune Hilary Bell , 1995 single work drama ; Relative Merits Barry Lowe , 1993 single work drama
Untitled Jacqueline Lo , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 29 1996; (p. 210-216)

— Review of The Gap Anna Broinowski , 1995 single work drama ; Fortune Hilary Bell , 1995 single work drama
Plays Offer "Asian-Pacific Interface" Dennis Carroll , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 11 no. 1 1997; (p. 63-64,65)

— Review of Heretic : Based on the Life of Derek Freeman David Williamson , 1996 single work drama ; Fortune Hilary Bell , 1995 single work drama ; Pacific Union : The Story of the San Francisco Forty-Fivers Alex Buzo , 1995 single work drama
Intercultural Salad John McCallum , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Fortune 1995; (p. 7-8)

— Review of Fortune Hilary Bell , 1995 single work drama
A Market for Otherness David Goodman , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Fortune 1995; (p. 9-11)

— Review of Fortune Hilary Bell , 1995 single work drama
Bell Rings Cultural Changes John McCallum , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Australian , 23 April 1993; (p. 9)
Bella Donna : Hilary Bell in Profile Gabrielle Bonney , 1994 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Dialogue , December no. 21 1994; (p. 8-9)
Misery Spawns a Big Play of Good Fortune 1996 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 May 1996; (p. 18)
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