Plays of the 60s (Vol 1) [Burst of Summer + Well + Promised Woman + Season at Sarsaparilla]

Title: Plays of the 60s (Vol 1) [Burst of Summer + Well + Promised Woman + Season at Sarsaparilla]
Author: Brisbane, Katharine
Price: $34.99

This collection includes Oriel Gray's study of race relations in a country town, Burst of Summer (1960), in which socialist theatre's thirty year documentation of social issues seemingly culminates. Jack McKinney's delightful country comedy The Well (1960) testifies to the impending end of the cultural isolation of rural life. Theodore Patrikareas' The Promised Woman (1963) displays the new world of the post-war immigrant, while Patrick White's radical 'charade of suburbia', The Season at Sarsaparilla (1962), offers a eulogy to the inarticulate Australian voice.

By the end of the 1960s, as charted in Volumes 2 and 3, the elevation of vernacular language had achieved heights of poetry and satire not previously attempted in Australian theatre history.

Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date: 15/06/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780868195452
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping