y separately published work icon Kid Stakes single work   drama   - Three acts
Is part of The Doll Trilogy Ray Lawler , 1977 series - author drama (number 1 in series)
First known date: 1975 Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 Kid Stakes
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Production Details

  • First produced by the Melbourne Theatre Co., Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, 2 December 1975. First performed with Other Times and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll as The Doll Trilogy at the Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne on 12 February 1977.

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Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording.

Works about this Work

Australia and China at 50 : The New Wave Theatre and the Drama of Cultural Exchange Anne Pender , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 46 no. 4 2022; (p. 482-495)

'2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the opening up of relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China. When he became prime minister in 1972, Gough Whitlam sent the first ambassador to China (Dr Stephen Fitzgerald), and in his term of office established support for artists’ exchanges from the Australia Council. The Australian Ballet visited China in 1980, the first major ballet company to tour since the Cultural Revolution. The touring of China by Australian theatre, opera and dance companies has flourished since then, particularly over the last decade, and Australian spoken-word drama has featured in the relationship between the two countries since 1983. Since the 1980s, the work of the New Wave dramatists has captured the interest of Chinese audiences over a sustained period beyond the years of the New Wave itself. The theatre has, in some respects, provided a respite from the rigours of realpolitik and most importantly a means of genuine interaction between ordinary Australians and Chinese citizens who make up the audiences. This article documents the take-up of the New Wave drama in China, and the legacy of the relationships created in this formative period of Australian theatre in its international context.' (Publication abstract)

Upping the Stakes with the First of a Trilogy Steven Carroll , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 18 February 1996; (p. 7)

— Review of Kid Stakes Ray Lawler , 1975 single work drama
The Summer Innocence was Lost Bryce Hallett , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 15 February 1996; (p. 15)

— Review of Kid Stakes Ray Lawler , 1975 single work drama
Sparkling Revival of 'Kidstakes' Felicity Bloch , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News , 1 March vol. 62 no. 22 1996; (p. 29)

— Review of Kid Stakes Ray Lawler , 1975 single work drama
Robyn's Splendid Kid Helen Thomson , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 February 1996; (p. A17)

— Review of Kid Stakes Ray Lawler , 1975 single work drama
Untitled John Tasker , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 December 1975; (p. 7)

— Review of Kid Stakes Ray Lawler , 1975 single work drama
...And Now - It's the Summer of the First Doll Leonard Radic , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 November 1975; (p. 17)

— Review of Kid Stakes Ray Lawler , 1975 single work drama
Untitled Ken Healey , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 September 1976; (p. 17)

— Review of Kid Stakes Ray Lawler , 1975 single work drama
Sixteen Dolls Too Soon Judith Barbour , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 12 March 1976; (p. 551)

— Review of Kid Stakes Ray Lawler , 1975 single work drama
Playing for High Stakes Tony Squires , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 September 1989; (p. metro 25)

— Review of Kid Stakes Ray Lawler , 1975 single work drama
Ray Lawler Jennifer Palmer (interviewer), 1979 single work interview
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Playwrights 1979; (p. 36-53)
A Stake in Our Past John Mangan , 1996 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 12 February 1996; (p. A16)
Ray Lawler Peter Fitzpatrick , 1979 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: After 'The Doll' : Australian Drama Since 1955 1979; (p. 19-33)
Ray Lawler Dagmar Strauss (interviewer), 1990 single work interview
— Appears in: Facing Writers : Australia's Leading Writers Talk with Dagmar Strauss 1990; (p. 103-113)
Growing Up in Australia Katharine Brisbane , 1978 single work criticism
— Appears in: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1978; (p. ix-xxii)
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