Theatre
The La Mama Collection: Six plays for the 1990s edited by Liz Jones
by Jack Hibberd •
Brides of Christ, Episode 3 by John Alsop and Sue Smith & The Drought by Tom Petsinis
by Sam Sejavka •
Collected Plays, Volume II by Patrick White & Collected Plays, Volume II by David Williamson
by Peter Fitzpatrick •
Patrick White by May-Brit Akerholt & Jack Hibberd by Paul McGillick
Australian Melodrama: Eighty Years of Popular Theatre by Eric Irvin
by Mary Lord •
Playlab Press is an offshoot of the Queensland Playwrights Laboratory which has the aim of assisting playwrights in the development of their craft through workshopping, production and possible publication of playscripts. It seems to be, with one exception, very much a regional enterprise and all the more admirable for it. The quality and number of these scripts culled, one assumes, from a much larger number of scripts submitted for selection, suggests a wealth of unpublished and unperformed theatrical material in the rest of Australia waiting for local groups as enterprising as the Queensland Playrights Laboratory.
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