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y separately published work icon The Tatty Hollow Story single work   drama   - Two acts.
  • Author:agent Dorothy Hewett http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hewett-dorothy
Issue Details: First known date: 1974... 1974 The Tatty Hollow Story
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 'No two versions of Tatty are alike in this conjuring of fantasies about an enigmatic, ageless blonde. A black comedy about ageing, faded beauty and accepting eccentricity.'

Source: Australian Plays (https://australianplays.org/script/CP-1291/). (Sighted: 22/02/18)

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Production Details

  • The Tatty Hollow Story was commissioned by the English Dept., University of Sydney and was first performed in a moved reading at the University of Sydney Women's College on 29 August 1974.

    Director: Alexander Hay.

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First known date: 1974
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Fictional Characters Take Over : Conversations with Dorothy Hewett Shed Light on Her Dramatic Oeuvre Jasna Novakovic , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 169 2002; (p. 18-21)
Recent Australian Women's Writing for the Stage Helen Thomson , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998; (p. 104-116) Helen Thomson surveys Australian women's writing for the stage, from 1970 to the 1990s, illustrating the diversity of feminist concerns and the forms these take in performances.
`Up in the Bio-Box': The Use of Hollywood Myth in Some Early Dorothy Hewett Plays Harry Garlick , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dorothy Hewett : Selected Critical Essays 1995; (p. 217-235)
Seeking Woman : Dorothy Hewett's Shifting Genres Susan Lever , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dorothy Hewett : Selected Critical Essays 1995; (p. 147-162)
Dorothy Hewett and the Left John McLaren , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dorothy Hewett : Selected Critical Essays 1995; (p. 32-52)
A Gutsy, Poetic Taste of Life Geraldine Pascall , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 19 April 1976; (p. 8)
— Review of The Tatty Hollow Story Dorothy Hewett , 1974 single work drama
Tatty Needs to be Held at Arm's Length Stuart Littlemore , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: The National Times , 19-24 April 1976; (p. 24)
— Review of The Tatty Hollow Story Dorothy Hewett , 1974 single work drama
Recent Australian Women's Writing for the Stage Helen Thomson , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998; (p. 104-116) Helen Thomson surveys Australian women's writing for the stage, from 1970 to the 1990s, illustrating the diversity of feminist concerns and the forms these take in performances.
Some Lonely Beach : Dorothy Hewett Paul Kavanagh , Peter Kuch , 1991 single work interview
— Appears in: Conversations : Interviews with Australian Writers 1991; (p. 111-135)
'Me is Not a Stable Reality' : Dorothy Hewett Marie-Louise Ayres , 1994 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: 'Me is Not a Stable Reality' : Negotiations of Identity in the Poetry of Dorothy Auchterlonie, Rosemary Dobson, Dorothy Hewett and J.S. Harry 1994; (p. 189-245)
Dorothy Hewett and the Left John McLaren , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dorothy Hewett : Selected Critical Essays 1995; (p. 32-52)
Seeking Woman : Dorothy Hewett's Shifting Genres Susan Lever , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dorothy Hewett : Selected Critical Essays 1995; (p. 147-162)
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Last amended 25 Jun 2018 15:31:15
Subjects:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
Settings:
  • 1940s
  • 1970s
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