PDF Download (426KB) Media Release for production of 'The Joy of Text' by Robert Reid, production by the Melbourne Theatre Company, 2011.
"‘I was attracted to the scandal that happened around Helen Demidenko-slash-Darville’s
identity and certain parallels with the sexual harassment scandal that Helen Garner was
investigating at Ormond College,’ he says. ‘I got to thinking: What if the two events were part of the same event? In common youth parlance, I created a mash-up.’
PDF Download (1.6MB) Program for La Mama production of 'The Joy of Text' by Robert Reid.
Robert Reid talks to Australian Stage's Paul Andrew.
"Unashamedly intelligent, the play engages with semantics, post-modernism, deconstructionism and morality without patronising either the audience or its characters. Intellectual without being high-flown, accessible and challenging, this work is comical, timely and a whole heap of fun."
"This is far and away the stand-out MTC production of the year to date, and, truly, the principal joy of it is the text."
"A 300-student state secondary school is the setting for this sordid but endearing tale of teachers accused of having sex with their students."
"True to its titillating title, The Joy of Text manages to link literary theory with sex. Melbourne playwright Robert Reid explains how he wrote a play that makes thinking about text sexy."
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