Synopsis
Plays Of The 70s - Volume 2
Published by Currency Press
1973-75 is famously remembered as 'the Whitlam years' and the plays of this period reveal a new sense of direction and a need to put the house in order after a brief but heady upheaval
After experiments with social satire, nudity and challenges to public order, the playwrights in this volume turn to the domestic arena to examine more seriously the way the individual is shaped by society
There is also a new preoccupation with personal morality and ethics; and hints of fear and disillusion brought about by change
Peter Kenna retreats to a restricted but more secure society, Alex Buzo wryly questions the advantages of moral freedom, and Jim McNeil and Robert Merritt movingly reveal the toll paid by two of Australia's most deprived communities