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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Radiance : The Play + The Screenplay
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* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Currency Press , 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Women on the Mud Flats, Louis Nowra , single work criticism (p. vii-xiv)
Radiance, Louis Nowra , single work drama

'Louis Nowra’s Radiance is an exuberant black sabbath for three great Indigenous dames. It begins conventionally enough: Mae, Nona and Cressy gather at the old Queenslander in the tropics for Mum’s funeral. But these three sisters are forces of nature, and they haven’t been in the same room for years, and years. It isn’t long before that old house can’t contain the joy and pain of them all being together again…

'Radiance began its life at Belvoir in 1993. After 22 years, Nowra’s feat of playwriting – almost Shakespearean, a Tempest-like packet of lust, rage, grief and high-flying foolery – is ready to be unleashed again. Leah Purcell is the woman for the job.

'Purcell is a powerhouse. She burst onto the national stage nearly two decades ago and is as full of fight and life as she ever was. What better idea than for this all-round theatre elder to direct herself in this mighty little classic?' (2015 Production summary)

(p. 1-66)
Radiance, Louis Nowra , single work film/TV

Radiance tells the story of three women who reunite, after many years apart, for their mother's funeral.

(p. 67-140)
Note:

Final shooting script.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Leah Purcell on Radiance, Henry Lawson and Indigenous Theatre Benjamin Neutze , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Daily Review , 16 December 2014;
[Review] Spurboard [et al] Donald Pulford , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , no. 2 2001;

— Review of Spurboard Nick Enright , 2001 single work drama ; Selected Plays Jack Hibberd , 2000 selected work drama ; Radiance : The Play + The Screenplay Louis Nowra , 2000 selected work drama screenplay
[Review] Spurboard [et al] Donald Pulford , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , no. 2 2001;

— Review of Spurboard Nick Enright , 2001 single work drama ; Selected Plays Jack Hibberd , 2000 selected work drama ; Radiance : The Play + The Screenplay Louis Nowra , 2000 selected work drama screenplay
Leah Purcell on Radiance, Henry Lawson and Indigenous Theatre Benjamin Neutze , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Daily Review , 16 December 2014;
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