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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Brilliant Lies
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Brilliant Lies Richard Franklin , Peter Fitzpatrick , ( dir. Richard Franklin ) Australia : Bayside Pictures , 1996 Z1028307 1996 single work film/TV satire A young woman enlists her family's help in bringing sexual harassment charges against her former boss. But is she lying?

Notes

  • Dedication: To my wife Kristin for her continuing love, editorial advice and support.
  • Study guides available.

Production Details

  • First produced by the Royal Queensland Theatre Company at the Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane, 29 April 1993. Director: Aubrey Mellor.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Paddington, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 1993 .
      Extent: xxii, 74pp.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Introduced by Aubrey Mellor with 'Perceptions of the Truth' (ix-x) and essay on sexual harassment, 'An Inevitable Part of Life' by Dr Greg Tillett (xi-xix).
      ISBN: 0868193712
      Series: Currency Plays Currency Press (publisher), series - publisher

Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording.

Works about this Work

'Let's Get Her' : Masculinities and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Australian Drama and Its Film Adaptations Christine Boman , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 76 2003; (p. 127-135, notes 246-247)
Explores the various strategies that playwrights and filmmakers employ to represent masculinities, especially in relation to acts of sexual violence, in a number of texts.
Brilliant Lies Tells Striking Truths Lesley Lamb , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 18 August 1998; (p. 23)
Why Controversy Sells Jo-Ann Stubbings , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 October 1996; (p. 10)

— Review of Brilliant Lies David Williamson , 1993 single work drama
y separately published work icon A Study Guide to David Williamson's Brilliant Lies Kilian MacNamara , Ballarat : Wizard Books , 1996 Z516627 1996 single work criticism biography
The Long Path Towards the Dead Right Male A. P. Riemer , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 March 1996; (p. 13)
Untitled Peter Fitzpatrick , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 24 1994; (p. 200-203)

— Review of Brilliant Lies David Williamson , 1993 single work drama
Australian Drama Books and Anthologies Offer Varied Fare Alexandra S. Cromwell , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 9 no. 1 1995; (p. 51-52)

— Review of Brilliant Lies David Williamson , 1993 single work drama ; Collected Plays : Volume II Patrick White , 1994 selected work drama ; Aftershocks : A Project of the Newcastle Workers' Cultural Action Committee Paul Brown , 1991 single work drama ; Collected Plays : Volume II David Williamson , 1993 selected work drama
Why Controversy Sells Jo-Ann Stubbings , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 October 1996; (p. 10)

— Review of Brilliant Lies David Williamson , 1993 single work drama
Humanist v Rationalist Brian Hoad , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 5 October vol. 115 no. 5890 1993; (p. 101)

— Review of Radiance Louis Nowra , 1993 single work drama ; Brilliant Lies David Williamson , 1993 single work drama
Brilliantly Contrived Sue Gough , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 18 May vol. 115 no. 5870 1993; (p. 114-115)

— Review of Brilliant Lies David Williamson , 1993 single work drama
'Let's Get Her' : Masculinities and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Australian Drama and Its Film Adaptations Christine Boman , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 76 2003; (p. 127-135, notes 246-247)
Explores the various strategies that playwrights and filmmakers employ to represent masculinities, especially in relation to acts of sexual violence, in a number of texts.
Theatre Survey Could Be a Mixed Blessing in Disguise Ron Banks , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The West Australian , 19 July 1994; (p. 5)
Sex, Lies and Jitters Rosemary Neill , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 April 1993; (p. rev 10)
Brilliant Lies Tells Striking Truths Lesley Lamb , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 18 August 1998; (p. 23)
Crackling with Porkies Dominic Buchanan , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 September 1993; (p. 5)
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