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  • Author:agent Dorothy Hewett http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hewett-dorothy
Issue Details: First known date: 1976... 1976 Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly / The Tatty Hollow Story : Two Plays
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* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Currency Methuen Drama , 1976 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly, Dorothy Hewett , single work musical theatre
A musical look back at the 1930s, Bon-bons and Roses for Dolly is set in the Crystal Palace movie theatre, now a left-over dream factory, where for almost all of her life Dolly has sought consolation from the world at the sleazy alter of Hollywood. Dolly's life has also seen her surrounded by several symbolic female figures: Mary Corker, the strong intellectual grandmother who represents emotional sterility; Dolly's mother, Maddy, the older victim-dreamer without province; and Ollie Pullett, described by Hewett in her 1979 Hecate article as both the 'indomitable survivor and the final apotheosis of lower middle class suburbia... the voice of commonsense gone berserk' ('Creating Heroines' p77). When Dolly's dream world finally crumbles she finds herself middle aged, searching desperately in the blackened mirror of the old suburban fleapit for the ghost of the girl she once was. The reality is too much for her and she shoots herself during a re-run of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
(p. 1-67)
The Tatty Hollow Story, Dorothy Hewett , single work drama

 'No two versions of Tatty are alike in this conjuring of fantasies about an enigmatic, ageless blonde. A black comedy about ageing, faded beauty and accepting eccentricity.'

Source: Australian Plays (https://australianplays.org/script/CP-1291/). (Sighted: 22/02/18)

(p. 69-151)
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