HEWETT COLLECTED PLAYS VOLUME 1

From teenage rebel to elder stateswoman, Dorothy Hewett's life as a poet and dramatist has followed the steps of Sally Banner, her iconic heroine in The Chapel Perilous doing battle on behalf of the forces of life. In turn she has shocked, outraged and seduced her public.

Alongside The Chapel Perilous this volume contains This Old Man Comes Rolling Home with its celebration of traditional working class values; Mrs Porter and the Angel with its focus on the frustrations of domesticity and marriage in the lives of academic women; and The Tatty Hollow Story in which seven lovers come together to talk about Tatty, who they cannot relinquish despite the fact that she has been dead for some years.‘No one writes plays—and certainly not in Australia—of such rich complexity and poetic force.’ Australian