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Rivers of China (Currency Plays) - Softcover

Alma De Groen

 
9780868191713: Rivers of China (Currency Plays)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 086819171X ISBN 13: 9780868191713
Publisher: Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS), 1988

Synopsis

In 1923 the writer Katherine Mansfield went to the guru Gurdjieff in Fontainebleau in the hope that he might "cure her soul". In the 1980s in Sydney, a young man awakes in hospital to find a world dominated by women. This daring re-examination of the female artist challenges the threshold of sexual politics.

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About the Author

ALMA DE GROEN began writing plays in 1968. While in Canada in 1970, Alma won a national playwriting competition with her short work, The Joss Adams Show. Her plays include The Sweatproof Boy (later titled Perfectly All Right), The After-Life of Arthur Cravan, Going Home, Chidley, Vocations, The Rivers of China (winner of the Premier's Literary Award for Drama in both New South Wales and Victoria), The Girl Who Saw Everything (winner of the 1993 AWGIE for Best Stage Play), and Blood Sisters. Her play The Woman in the Window was supported by a grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council and shortlisted for the 1999 NSW Premier's Award for Drama. De Groen was awarded the 1985 AWGIE award for her television adaptation of Man Of Letters. She later wrote a telemovie After Marcuse for ABC TV and has written scripts for the television series Single and Rafferty's Rules. De Groen has also worked for radio: Available Light and Stories In The Dark (with Ian Mackenzie), which was the Australian 1996 Prix Italia entry. De Groen was the first playwright to win the Patrick White Literary Award for her contribution to Australian theatre.

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Publisher
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)
Publication date
1988
Language
English
ISBN 10 
086819171X
ISBN 13 
9780868191713
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
1