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Pamela Payne Heckenberg

Pamela Payne Heckenberg reviews 'Patrick White' by May-Brit Akerholt and 'Jack Hibberd' by Paul McGillick

August 1988, no. 103 01 August 1988
Pamela Payne Heckenberg reviews 'Patrick White' by May-Brit Akerholt and 'Jack Hibberd' by Paul McGillick
Although it is accidental that these two books have been released simultaneously (they just happen to be numbers two and three in a series of monographs on Australian playwrights) it’s a fortuitous accident. In form, they provide examples of two markedly contrasting and entirely appropriate methods of dealing with the work of a playwright. And historically, both Patrick White and Jack Hibberd ha ... (read more)