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Notes
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Dedication: To my sister Dessie who shared The Crystal Palace.
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Epigraph: 'This stage, he said, is eternal. Even death is subject to these lights. ... This stage, he said, is Truth - never in living but here, here, all felt things are permitted to speak.' Robert Duncan - The Venice Poem
Contents
* 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.
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Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly,
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.
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The Tatty Hollow Story,
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)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Broad Dimensions of Poetry
1977
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 February 1977; (p. 15)
— Review of The History of Australia 1976 selected work poetry ; Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly / The Tatty Hollow Story : Two Plays 1976 selected work drama musical theatre ; Contemporary Portraits and Other Stories 1975 selected work short story -
Privileged, Authentic, Transcendent, Arcane: Limits of Naturalism in Some Contemporary Australian Plays
1977
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 37 no. 1 1977; (p. 77-92) -
Plays of Hewett and Sherman
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Theatre Australia , October-November vol. 1 no. 3 1976; (p. 56)
— Review of Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly / The Tatty Hollow Story : Two Plays 1976 selected work drama musical theatre ; This Old Man Comes Rolling Home 1967 single work drama
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Plays of Hewett and Sherman
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Theatre Australia , October-November vol. 1 no. 3 1976; (p. 56)
— Review of Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly / The Tatty Hollow Story : Two Plays 1976 selected work drama musical theatre ; This Old Man Comes Rolling Home 1967 single work drama -
Broad Dimensions of Poetry
1977
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 February 1977; (p. 15)
— Review of The History of Australia 1976 selected work poetry ; Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly / The Tatty Hollow Story : Two Plays 1976 selected work drama musical theatre ; Contemporary Portraits and Other Stories 1975 selected work short story -
Privileged, Authentic, Transcendent, Arcane: Limits of Naturalism in Some Contemporary Australian Plays
1977
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 37 no. 1 1977; (p. 77-92)
Last amended 11 Jul 2006 10:49:27