'February the 3rd, 1967. A man waits alone in a prison cell in Pentridge Prison in Coburg, Victoria. Very soon, he will either be pardoned for a crime he insists he never committed, or executed for it. As the clock ticks and voices outside scream his name for pardon or life imprisonment rather than death by hanging, he suffers to see whether he shall be spared or etched into the history books as one of the darkest moments in criminal history.
'Returning to the subject of his award-winning play Remembering Ronald Ryan, Barry Dickins crafts a haunting monologue, a portrait of a man on the edge of oblivion, pulled between accepting his fate and holding onto hope. ' (Publication summary)
Guts and Pity : The Hanging That Ended Capital Punishment in Australia
Paddington
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Currency Press
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1996
Z814168
1996
single work
