y separately published work icon Drag Show : Featuring Peter Kenna's Mates and Steve J. Spears' The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin anthology   drama   autobiography   interview   essay   column  
Issue Details: First known date: 1977... 1977 Drag Show : Featuring Peter Kenna's Mates and Steve J. Spears' The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Woollahra, Sydney Eastern Harbourside, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Currency Press , 1977 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Life Is Not a Drag, Reg Livermore , single work autobiography (p. 6-9)
Me? I'm Just Myself, Martin Smith (interviewer), single work interview (p. 10-19)
I'll Just Be an Older Woman, Rose Jackson , single work autobiography (p. 20-35)
Mates, Peter Joseph Kenna , single work drama

'What do a transvestite, an ageing shearer, a retired prostitute and a famous footballer have in common? All find themselves in a cabaret venue late one night after the show – and all are looking for love. Peter Kenna’s masterful and touching one-Act play was first performed in 1975, and has lost none of its bittersweet emotion. By turns moving, funny and terrifying, this play is a powerful record of a time when love could not always speak its name.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)

 (p. 36-77)
The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, Steve J. Spears , single work drama

'The elocution lessons of a boy named Benjamin Franklin bring about the destruction of his teacher, a timid transvestite whose only sexual activity takes place in the world of fantasy.'

Source: 'Noble Technique', Canberra Times, 19 March 1977, p.15.

 (p. 78-119)
Out of the Closet -- The Road to Serenity, Serena Cullen , single work autobiography (p. 120-125)
A Husband, Not a Sister, Hilary Beaumont (interviewer), single work interview (p. 126-137)
A Harmless Pursuit -- Types of Transvestitism, Neil Buhrich , single work essay (p. 138-140)
Transvestitism and the Law, George Zdenkowski , single work column (p. 141-142)
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