Mates - Softcover

Kenna; Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1760627429 ISBN 13: 9781760627423

Publisher: Currency Press, 2021

Synopsis

What do a transvestite, an ageing shearer, a retired prostitute and a famous footballer have in common? All find themselves in a cabaret venue late one night after the show - and all are looking for love. Peter Kenna's masterful and touching one-Act play was first performed in 1975, and has lost none of its bittersweet emotion. By turns moving, funny and terrifying, this play is a powerful record of a time when love could not always speak its name.

About this title

About the Author

PETER KENNA (1930–1987) was one of thirteen children brought up in an Irish Catholic family in the working class Sydney suburb of Balmain. A radio and stage actor, he first attracted national attention as a writer in 1959 when The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day won a General Motors-Holden National Playwriting Competition. He moved to London in 1959 where he wrote Talk to the Moon and Muriel's Virtues. He returned to live in Sydney in 1971, debilitated by a chronic illness. Nevertheless, the 1970s proved to be his most fruitful decade with Listen Closely, Mates, Trespassers and Will Be Prosecuted, and The Cassidy Album Trilogy-A Hard God, Furtive Love and An Eager Hope, which was written between 1973 and 1982.

Edition details

• Publisher: Currency Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1760627429
• ISBN 13: 9781760627423
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38