Pockets of Rebellion : Katherine Thomson single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Pockets of Rebellion : Katherine Thomson
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'This chapter focuses on Katherine Thomson as a playwright who utilises the conventions of social realism and naturalism to write plays that dramatise the effects of social and economic change on the lives of fictional but realistically-based characters.' (p.158)

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    y separately published work icon The Dolls' Revolution : Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination Rachel Fensham , Denise Varney , Maryrose Casey , Laura Ginters , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2005 Z1261220 2005 selected work criticism

    'This provocative new study of Australian theatre focuses on women writers who have changed our ways of seeing Australian culture. They include Hannie Rayson on the sisterhood, Joanna Murray-Smith on generation f, Jenny Kemp on desire, Katherine Thomson on working girls, Jane Harrison on the stolen generation, Leah Purcell on black chics and Beatrix Christian on miscegenation. Drawing on the title of the ground-breaking Australian play of the 1950s, Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Rachel Fensham and Denise Varney explore the social and imaginative transformation of Australian theatre in the last twenty years.' (Publication summary)

         Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2005     pg. 157-198
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Subjects:
  • Diving for Pearls Katherine Thomson , 1991 single work drama
  • Barmaids Katherine Thomson , 1991 single work drama
  • Navigating Katherine Thomson , 1997 single work drama
  • Wonderlands Katherine Thomson , 2003 single work drama
  • Mavis Goes to Timor Angela Chaplin , Paola Kavisha Mazzella , Katherine Thomson , 2002 single work drama
  • Harbour Katherine Thomson , 2004 single work drama
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