y Us or Them single work   drama   - Two acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1984 1984

Abstract

'Teachers and students confront each other in an uncompromising environment. The younger idealistic teachers side with the students against their more experienced and occasionally embittered senior colleagues. The System remains intractable and dehumanising for both students and teachers.' (RGM Associates website, http://www.rgm.com.au/nm_lit.html)

Production Details

    • First produced at the Childers Street Hall, Canberra, 1 November 1977.
    • Re-written for Griffin Theatre Co. and produced at the Stables Theatre, Sydney, 21 February 1984.

Publication Details of Earliest Known Version

    • Sydney : Currency Press Griffin Theatre Company , 1984
      Extent: 53p.
      • Note: Between pages 26 and 27 there are four unnumbered pages relating to the Griffin Theatre Company production, including cast list and biographies for author, director and designer.
      ISBN: 0868191000
      Series: Current Theatre Series Currency Press (publisher), 1983- series - publisher 'Current Theatre Series consists of Australian plays published with the program inserted and sold during theatre seasons. The aim of the series is to promote and encourage new dramatic writing and make it accessible to theatregoers and the public. The text is presented at the first day of rehearsal and does not contain changes which the author may choose to make after the play has commenced its present season - these will be incorporated into any new edition published by Currency.' Currency Press.

Works about this Work

A Class Act, but Could Do Better Bob Evans , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 September 1992;

— Review of Us or Them Ned Manning 1984 single work drama ;
A Class Act, but Could Do Better Bob Evans , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 September 1992;

— Review of Us or Them Ned Manning 1984 single work drama ;
Subjects:
  • Teachers
  • Students