Richard Wherrett Prize
Subcategory of AWGIE Awards
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  • The $40,000 Richard Wherrett Prize was established in 2007 by the Australian Writers' Guild and the Copyright Agency Limited. Eligible plays must have been staged in the previous calendar year. The prize is shared between the play's writer and the theatre company respsonsible for the play's first Australian production.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2009

winner Slut Patricia Cornelius , 2008 single work drama
— Appears in: Lovely Lovely Sometimes Ugly 2019;

'Lolita is crowned the queen of sluts. And no matter how much a girl thinks her life's her own and thinks she can do whatever she wants, a slut's a slut. A mob of young women take a stick to the pinata and watch Lolita's final devastating fall.'

Source: www.fortyfivedownstairs.com (Sighted 20/02/2008).
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