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y separately published work icon Hotel Sorrento single work   drama   - Two acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Hotel Sorrento
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Notes:
The play has also been translated into Japanese.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Melbourne, Victoria,: Currency Press ; Playbox Theatre , 1990 .
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      Extent: 90p.
      Description: port.
      ISBN: 0868192724
      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.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 1992 .
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      Extent: 87, [1]p.p.
      Edition info: Revised edition
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1997
      Note/s:
      • Currency plays.
      • 'A Sweet Pensive Sadness' by Hannie Rayson, Collingwood, October 1992.(vi-viii). 'With Hotel Sorrento I wanted to write a play of ideas; something which would send an audience out into the night with all sorts of things to talk about over coffee. I also wanted to create a 'sweet pensive sadness' to pervade the experience, as there is something delectable about melancholy which seems to alter the way we see things....'
      • 'The Quest for Certainty' by Aubrey Mellor(ix-xiv).'This theme of ownership is very important in the play - Rayson clearly uses the family as a metaphor for Australia - just as the family members must face up to their past and own what has happened to them before any reconciliation is possible, so must we as a nation.' (xii).
      ISBN: 0868193372
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Contemporary Australian Plays Russell Vandenbroucke , London : Methuen , 2001 Z869352 2001 anthology drama musical theatre (taught in 1 units) London : Methuen , 2001
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2002 .
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      Extent: xiv, 93p.
      Edition info: Rev. ed.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0868196819 (pbk.), 9780868196817 (pbk.)
Language: French
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Settings:
  • Sorrento, Mornington Peninsula (Port Phillip Bay), Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne, Victoria,
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