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Notes

  • General editor: Philip Parsons.

Includes

y separately published work icon Macquarie : A Play Alex Buzo , Woollahra : Currency Press , 1971 Z342715 1971 single work drama
Manuscript No. 5.
y separately published work icon The Third Secretary : A Play Ralph Peterson , Sydney : Currency Press , 1972 Z186858 1972 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press , 1972
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y separately published work icon The Chapel Perilous, Or, The Perilous Adventures of Sally Banner Dorothy Hewett , Frank Arndt (composer), Michael Leydon (composer), Sydney : Currency Press , 1972 8274485 1972 single work musical theatre (taught in 7 units)

Written in Hewett's freewheeling epic style, The Chapel Perilous is a journey play that spans the period between the 1930s and the late 1960s. The story concerns Sally Banner, an over-reacher who attempts to find fulfilment – whether through her gift of poetic expression, through her sexual relationships, or in later years through political activism - and ultimately finds it through self-acceptance. Thematically the play contains the qualities and concerns which are often associated with Hewett's style – female sexuality, questioning of authority and morality, and anarchic tendencies towards structure in both dramatic text and social attitudes.

As Hewett remarks in her 1979 Hecate article: 'Sally is balanced by several symbolic female figures, the "Authority figures" of Headmistress, Anglican teaching "sister", and mother... [along with the] lesbian love figure, Judith, who stands for intellectual control and denial of sensual love' ('Creating Heroines in Australian Plays', p. 77).

Sydney : Currency Press , 1972
y separately published work icon The Slaughter of St. Teresa's Day : A Play Peter Joseph Kenna , Sydney : Currency Press , 1972 Z541474 1959 single work drama

'Two released prisoners interrupt a feast day party given by an 1950s ex-Sydney gangster.'

Source: AusStage (http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/work/4704). (Sighted: 9/10/2013)

Sydney : Currency Press , 1972
y separately published work icon The Lucky Streak : A Play James Searle , 1966 Z203016 1966 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press , 1972
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