PLAYS OF THE 70S: VOLUME 2
by Katharine Brisbane (ed)
The years 1973-75 are famously remembered as 'the Whitlam years' (after the then Labour Prime Minister Gough Whitlam), and the plays of this period reveal a new sense of direction and a desire for political and cultural rejuvenation.
After experiments with social satire, nudity and challenges to public order, the playwrights in this volume turn to the domestic arena to examine more seriously the way in which the individual is shaped by society. There is also a new preoccupation with personal morality and ethics, and hints of the fear and disillusion that change can bring about.
In A Hard God Peter Kenna retreats to a restricted but more secure society; Alex Buzo wryly questions the advantages of moral freedom through Coralie Lansdowne Says No; while Jim McNeil's How Does Your Garden Grow and Robert Merritt's The Cake Man movingly reveal the toll paid by two of Australia's most deprived communities.
Paperback $32.95
| ISBN | 9780868195520 |
| Length | full length |
| Audience age | adult |
| Publisher | Currency Press |
