Cirrus@Austlit

From playwright's website:

Also in 1991, I started work on a huge music theatre piece, The Grandfather Clock, based on Anthony Hill's novel of the same name.  This novel had intrigued me when I read it in manuscript form. It is full of conundrums, number games which I felt would be fun to play with musically (the number 13 is woven into the music in several ways!).  And the plot was extremely colourful, featuring a girl fighting her way through the mechanism inside a grandfather clock, battling giant spiders, and dodging characters from the Greek underworld.  I finished more than half the piece in 1991, but shelved it pending certainty of performance. Ten years later, in 2001–02, I was made the artsACT Creative Artist of the Year, and finished the piece. It was extremely unfortunate that neither the Australia Council, which had funded my first year's writing of it, nor artsACT, which funded my second year's writing of it, saw fit in 2002 to help with the performance costs (in the Playhouse and in the Street Theatre).

Source: http://www.judithclingan.net.au/about.htm (Sighted: 25/10/2017)