y separately published work icon Rapture single work   drama   - Prologue and four scenes.
Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Rapture
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Notes

  • Dedication: For my friends, Fiona Moshirian and Annie Went.

Production Details

  • First produced by Playbox Theatre Company at the CUB Malthouse, Melbourne on 13 November 2002.

    Director: Jenny Kemp.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2002 .
      Extent: 56p.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Theatre Program at end of playtext.
      ISBN: 0868196797
      Series: Current Theatre Series Currency Press (publisher), 1983- series - publisher 'Current Theatre Series consists of Australian plays published with the program inserted and sold during theatre seasons. The aim of the series is to promote and encourage new dramatic writing and make it accessible to theatregoers and the public. The text is presented at the first day of rehearsal and does not contain changes which the author may choose to make after the play has commenced its present season - these will be incorporated into any new edition published by Currency.' Currency Press.

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Show Stealers Juliet Herd , John McCallum , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian , 21 February 2003; (p. 13, 16)
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— Review of Rapture Joanna Murray-Smith , 2002 single work drama
The Chime of Our Lives is the Sound of Time Ending Joanna Murray-Smith , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 24 November 2002; (p. 17)
The Best of Enemies Martin Ball , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 15 November 2002; (p. 20)

— Review of Rapture Joanna Murray-Smith , 2002 single work drama
A Courageous Leap of Faith Helen Thomson , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 November 2002; (p. 4)

— Review of Rapture Joanna Murray-Smith , 2002 single work drama
Show Stealers Juliet Herd , John McCallum , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian , 21 February 2003; (p. 13, 16)
Article discusses how Australian playwrights were once mostly ignored in Europe and are now receiving plenty of exposure and recognition.
Modern Dolls, Global Spin: Joanna Murray-Smith Rachel Fensham , Denise Varney , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Dolls' Revolution : Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination 2005; (p. 109-156)
'This chapter positions Murray-Smith and her fascination with the modulations between language, truth and reality as a global playwright of modern drama...' (p.114)
The Chime of Our Lives is the Sound of Time Ending Joanna Murray-Smith , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 24 November 2002; (p. 17)
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