Wicked Sisters - Softcover

Alma De Groen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1760623180 ISBN 13: 9781760623180

Publisher: Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS), 2020

Synopsis

When George Hobbes scientific genius­ dies, his widow, Meridee, hosts a lunch for three friends. The four women have known each other since their youth but their lives have gone in divergent directions. As secrets unravel through their reminiscences, George s influential theories of evolution based on deadly competition begin to have an uncanny resonance and Meridee s genteel Blue Mountains idyll dissolves into a battleground. Alma de Groen s classic play takes a sharp-fanged, humorous look at the shape of women s lives.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1760623180
• ISBN 13: 9781760623180
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84