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Theatre

Five plays by women

by Thérèse Radic
April 1996, no. 179

Playing the Past by Kerry Kilner and Sue Tweg

Currency, $10 pb, 54 pp

The History of Water by Noëlle Janaczewska

Currency, $14.95 pb, 56 pp

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Katherine Brisbane’s Currency Press is the major play-publishing house in the country and no stranger to the snap-freeze process of producing program play texts by women as well as men. The women have a fair representation in Currency’s general range, but they proliferate in the Current Theatre Series, those pre-first production texts so impossible to follow up with the writer’s post-natal reconsiderations.

 


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Playing the Past by Kerry Kilner and Sue Tweg

Currency, $10 pb, 54 pp

The History of Water

The History of Water by Noëlle Janaczewska

Currency, $14.95 pb, 56 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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