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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Jonah
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Notes

  • Based on the Louis Stone novel, Jonah.

Production Details

  • Commissioned and produced by the Sydney Theatre Company 1987.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Jonah Jones
      1987 .
      Extent: [1], 86 l.p.
      Description: Typescript (photocopy) bound 30 cm.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Contains annotations.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H2034
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Damage : A Collection of Plays John Romeril , Sydney : Currency Press , 2010 Z1709452 2010 selected work drama (taught in 3 units)

    'This collection, introduced by John McCallum, includes three previously unpublished works: Jonah, a Brechtian musical reinvention of Louis Stone's novel of the same name; Top End, a political drama set in Darwin during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, and Lost Weekend which takes a class-based look at 'Australianess'. They are published together with Romeril's best-known play, The Floating World, the story of a returned serviceman's descent into madness on a cruise ship bound for Japan.

    'Romeril's writing conveys the immediacy of the times that stems from his beginnings as an agitprop writer, but he focuses on everyday lives. The plays in Damage explore the twentieth century stresses and strains, the damage we do and the damage done to us.' (From the publisher's website.)

    Sydney : Currency Press , 2010

Works about this Work

Resuscitated Murray Bramwell , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , October no. 93 1991; (p. 40-41)

— Review of Jonah John Romeril , 1987 single work musical theatre
The Bootmaker Lives John Edge , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 17 September vol. 113 no. 5787 1991; (p. 94-95)

— Review of Jonah John Romeril , 1987 single work musical theatre
Musical on a Gutsy Note Lance Campbell , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 31 August 1991; (p. 10)
Jonah Lives Again Tim Lloyd , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 August 1991; (p. 107)
Twins' Second Coming Reworks a Double Act Jo Litson , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian , 31 October 1990; (p. 14)
The Bootmaker Lives John Edge , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 17 September vol. 113 no. 5787 1991; (p. 94-95)

— Review of Jonah John Romeril , 1987 single work musical theatre
Resuscitated Murray Bramwell , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , October no. 93 1991; (p. 40-41)

— Review of Jonah John Romeril , 1987 single work musical theatre
Romeril Kristin Williamson (interviewer), 1985 single work criticism interview
— Appears in: The National Times , 18-24 October 1985; (p. 28)
Jonah Lives Again Tim Lloyd , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 August 1991; (p. 107)
Twins' Second Coming Reworks a Double Act Jo Litson , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian , 31 October 1990; (p. 14)
Musical on a Gutsy Note Lance Campbell , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 31 August 1991; (p. 10)
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