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West End premiere of smash-hit Australian drama - directed by Michael 'Kiss Me Kate' Blakemore and starring Stephen Dillane Peter George, charismatic academic, idealist, lover of life, is dead. His wife, two ex-wives and daughter gather for his funeral. As the true nature of the man and his life unfolds, so these women discover more than they bargained for about the lives they have lived both in and out of his shadow. Life After George is a moving and perceptive insight into social change across three decades. From the barricades of the student movements of the late 1960s to the new millennium and its different demands on education, the role of the university has been crucial. And it is on this stage that the politically uncompromising George played out his brilliant, tempestuous career. A box-office sensation in Melbourne, Australia, Life After George opens in the West End in February with Stephen Dillane in the lead directed by Michael Blakemore and produced by Michael Codron, who have been responsible in the past for, among others, all the Michael Frayn hits such as Copenhagen and Noises Off.
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HANNIE RAYSON has established a reputation for topical, complex dramas written with wit and humour. A graduate of Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts, she has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University and is a Fellow of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. Her plays have been extensively performed around Australia and internationally. They include Please Return to Sender, Mary, Leave It Till Monday, Room to Move, Hotel Sorrento, Falling From Grace, Competitive Tenderness, Life After George, Inheritance and Two Brothers. She has been awarded two Australian Writers' Guild Awards, four Helpmann Awards, two NSW Premier's Literary Awards and a Victorian Premier's Literary Award as well as the Age Performing Arts Award. She also wrote Scenes from a Separation with Andrew Bovell. For television she has written 'Sloth' (ABC, Seven Deadly Sins) and co-written two episodes of SeaChange (ABC/Artists Services). A feature film of Hotel Sorrento, produced in 1995, was nominated for ten Australian Film Institute Awards. In 1999 she received the Magazine Publishers' Society of Australia's Columnist of the Year Award for her regular contributions to HQ magazine. Rayson made playwriting history when Life After George was the first play to be nominated for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2006 she was nominated for the Melbourne Prize for Literature, a prize for a Victoria-based writer whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to cultural and intellectual life.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Peter George, charismatic academic, idealist, lover of life, is dead. His wife, two ex-wives and daughter gather for his funeral. As the true nature of the man and his life unfolds, so these women discover much about themselves and the lives they have lived both within and outside his shadow.Life After George is a moving and perceptive insight into social change across three decades told through individual experiences. From the barricades of the student movements of the late 1960s to the new century with its demands for different educational strategies, the university has been central to change. And it is on this stage that George played out his brilliant, tempestuous career.Written with passion and dangerous wit, Life After George is a compelling new drama from the author of Hotel Sorrento. This is the story of three women, three marriages and one husband. The death of charismatic Professor Peter George brings his three wives together. In his three marriages we see the progress of Australia's intellectual and political life, from the idealistic 60s to the pragmatic 90s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780868196282
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Peter George, charismatic academic, idealist, lover of life, is dead. His wife, two ex-wives and daughter gather for his funeral. As the true nature of the man and his life unfolds, so these women discover much about themselves and the lives they have lived both within and outside his shadow.Life After George is a moving and perceptive insight into social change across three decades told through individual experiences. From the barricades of the student movements of the late 1960s to the new century with its demands for different educational strategies, the university has been central to change. And it is on this stage that George played out his brilliant, tempestuous career.Written with passion and dangerous wit, Life After George is a compelling new drama from the author of Hotel Sorrento. This is the story of three women, three marriages and one husband. The death of charismatic Professor Peter George brings his three wives together. In his three marriages we see the progress of Australia's intellectual and political life, from the idealistic 60s to the pragmatic 90s. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780868196282