[Peter Craven, ABC, March 16th 2010]:
Louis Nowra, the playwright, has caused a wave of recoil because of a nasty – and by no means glitteringly nasty – attack on Germaine Greer, whose book The Female Eunuch is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Archive for March 25th, 2010
[Rod McGuirk, AP, March 25th 2010]:
Internationally acclaimed Australian children’s author Patricia Wrightson died this week, an official said Thursday. She was 88.
Wrightson was awarded in 1986 the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Medal — the highest accolade for a writer of children’s fiction — given by the Swiss-based International Board on Books for Young People.
The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre will present a specially commissioned playreading adaptation of the award-winning Tasmanian novel, Pescador’s Wake, on Monday 19 April.
Four actors will bring to life the voices of characters from the novel, which follows a drama on the Southern Ocean as an Australian customs vessel chases a Uruguayan boat illegally netting Patagonian toothfish, and the lives and past loves of their wives back at home.
Writers’ Centre Director Chris Gallagher said the playreading would be one of the Centre’s premier events for the year.
“Tasmanian writer Katherine Johnson has created such compelling, memorable, human characters,” she said.
“For those with a love of good writing, this event will be inspirational.
“For developing writers, being able to create strong, believable characters is a key skill.
“For this reason, the Centre has partnered with the Tasmanian Theatre Company to bring Tasmanian fiction to the stage, with a focus on voice of character.
“Writers at any stage of their development will be able to learn from and enjoy this feature on excellent Tasmanian writing.”
Ms Gallagher said renowned Australian director and current Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Tasmania, Michael Beresford, had been chosen to direct the the playreading adaptation.
She said the playreading was an exciting and engaging way of bringing writing to a Tasmanian audience and was part of the Centre’s commitment to ‘writing in the city’, a series of events open to the public.
The Pescador’s Wake playreading will be held at 7.30 pm on Monday 19 April, at the Backspace Theatre, Theatre Royal, Hobart.
Tickets for the Pescador’s Wake playreading are $10 and can be booked through the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre, email admin@tasmanianwriters.org or phone 6224 0029.