Thérèse Radic

On my desk lies a review copy of Leah Purcell and Scott Rankin’s play, Box the Pony, which comes as a particularly lavish edition put out by Hodder, not a name usually associated with Australian play publishing, let alone anything as new as this. The review appears elsewhere in ABR, but I was surprised at being asked to offer a critique of it at all. Productions get reviewed, but once in print p ... (read more)

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 r ... (read more)