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y separately published work icon Wolf Lullaby single work   drama   - Seventeen scenes
Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Wolf Lullaby
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'Is there intrinsic evil in the world?

'In a bleak, remote town, a small child is murdered. Suspicion falls on 9-year-old Lizzie. Convinced her daughter is guilty, Lizzie's young mother must make the torturous choice between ignoring her intuition and presenting Lizzie to the police.

'Lizzie is not the only one who is changed forever by the act. The adults around her, bewildered and full of denial, find their accepted beliefs crumbling around them in a play which explores the sources of violence and its legacy.'

Source: Australian Plays (https://australianplays.org/script/CP-511). (Sighted: 25/6/2018)

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form y separately published work icon Wolf Lullaby Hilary Bell , Australia : ABC Radio National , 2002 9222663 2002 single work radio play

Production Details

  • First produced by Griffin Theatre Co., Stables Theatre, Sydney, 23 April 1996.

    Performed at the Atlantic Theater (336 W. 20th Street) New York, 28 October 1998.

    Play reading held by Ensemble Theatre, 23 October 2017.

    Director: Francesca Savage.

    Cast: Emma Chelsey, Scott Sheridan, Kate Skinner, and Christopher Stollery.

    Performed at Holden Street Theatres by Oily Rag Theatre, Adelaide 4 - 12 May 2018 (the theatre company's premiere production).

    Director: by Kirstin Telfer. 

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Paddington, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 1997 .
      Extent: 59p.
      Description: illus., port.
      ISBN: 0868194956
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2013 .
      Extent: 1vp.
      ISBN: 9781925004311 (ebook : Kindle) :, 9781921428852 (ebook : epub) :
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2002 .
      Extent: viii, 58p.p.
      Edition info: Rev. ed.
      Description: music, ports
      ISBN: 0868196681
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Works about this Work

Crying Wolf John Dexter , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , May no. 459 2018; (p. 25)

'This month Oily Rag Theatre will perform Wolf Lullaby, an unsettling examination of how a child could commit murder.'  
Australian Gothic Drama : Mapping a Nation's Trauma from Convicts to the Stolen Generation Stephen Carleton , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , June no. 66 2015; (p. 11-39)
Wolf Lullaby : A Horrid Little Girl as Murder Suspect Ben Brantley , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: New York Times , 29 October 1998;
— Review of Wolf Lullaby Hilary Bell , 1997 single work drama
Drewe Adds Adelaide Prize to List 1998 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 3 March 1998; (p. 5)
Child's Play that Lulls Us into a Sense of Insecurity Bryce Hallett , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 4 June 1997; (p. 14)
— Review of Wolf Lullaby Hilary Bell , 1997 single work drama
A Powerful Study of a Good Girl Who Murders Helen Thomson , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 June 1997; (p. C5)
— Review of Wolf Lullaby Hilary Bell , 1997 single work drama
Blood Simple Murray Bramwell , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , July no. 166 1997; (p. 30-31)
— Review of Wolf Lullaby Hilary Bell , 1997 single work drama
Child's Play that Lulls Us into a Sense of Insecurity Bryce Hallett , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 4 June 1997; (p. 14)
— Review of Wolf Lullaby Hilary Bell , 1997 single work drama
Wolf Lullaby : A Horrid Little Girl as Murder Suspect Ben Brantley , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: New York Times , 29 October 1998;
— Review of Wolf Lullaby Hilary Bell , 1997 single work drama
Bella Donna : Hilary Bell in Profile Gabrielle Bonney , 1994 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Dialogue , December no. 21 1994; (p. 8-9)
Drewe Adds Adelaide Prize to List 1998 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 3 March 1998; (p. 5)
Sisters Unite to Break the Taboo on the Little Devils Joyce Morgan , 1996 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian , 12 April 1996; (p. 8)
Australian Gothic Drama : Mapping a Nation's Trauma from Convicts to the Stolen Generation Stephen Carleton , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , June no. 66 2015; (p. 11-39)
Crying Wolf John Dexter , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , May no. 459 2018; (p. 25)

'This month Oily Rag Theatre will perform Wolf Lullaby, an unsettling examination of how a child could commit murder.'  
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Subjects:
  • Country towns,
Settings:
  • Tasmania,
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