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Poor Johanna single work   drama   - One act
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Poor Johanna
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What happens to a woman who isn't considered beautiful? This play reflects the bizarre and true story of a woman in the 1850s who crosses the gender line and lives her life as a male boundary rider in the Australian Bush.

(Source: State Library of South Australia)

Notes

  • Written in 1987. Based on the same news item in an 1894 newspaper as was 'Nosy Alf' in Furphy's Such Is Life.

Production Details

  • Produced by the Living Voice Theatre Co., Cardwell Street Theatre, (The Red Shed), in Adelaide, c3 July 1994.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Heroines : A Contemporary Anthology of Australian Women Writers Heroines Dale Spender (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 Z152508 1991 anthology criticism drama extract short story prose poetry

    'Who are the heroines women look to? Twenty-two Australian writers of fiction, drama, poetry, journalism, TV scripts and non-fiction reflect on their heroines. There are extraordinary women and ordinary women; mothers, detectives, old women, teenagers, sisters, lesbians, rural women, urban women. ' (Source: Book Despository website)

         Ringwood : Penguin , 1991     pg. 67-111
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Works about this Work

Robyn in World-Class Curtain Call Nadine Williams , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 19 April 1994; (p. 10)
Yet to Realise Promise Samela Harris , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 July 1994; (p. 15)
— Review of Poor Johanna Robyn Archer , Judith Rodriguez , 1991 single work drama
An Analysis of Beauty Nadine Williams , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 June 1994; (p. 22)
— Review of Poor Johanna Robyn Archer , Judith Rodriguez , 1991 single work drama
An Analysis of Beauty Nadine Williams , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 June 1994; (p. 22)
— Review of Poor Johanna Robyn Archer , Judith Rodriguez , 1991 single work drama
Yet to Realise Promise Samela Harris , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 July 1994; (p. 15)
— Review of Poor Johanna Robyn Archer , Judith Rodriguez , 1991 single work drama
Robyn in World-Class Curtain Call Nadine Williams , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 19 April 1994; (p. 10)
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