AustLit
Units Teaching this Work
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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Hotel Sorrento
Sydney
Melbourne
:
Currency Press
Playbox Theatre
,
1990
Z481931
1990
single work
drama
(taught in 3 units)
Hotel Sorrento is a vivid, moving and funny play which explores the concept of loyalty both to family and to country. Three sisters come together after ten years: Hilary who lives in Sorrento with her father and her sixteen-year-old son; Pippa visiting from New York where she works in advertising; and Meg, who returns home from England with her English husband after her new novel Melancholy is shortlisted for the Booker prize. Unspoken aspects of their shared past, jolted by the autobiographical flavour of Meg's book, haunt their reunion. Coincidentally, Marge, a teacher, with a holiday house in Sorrento, reads the novel and finds it captures an Australia she knows. Her friend, Dick, however, is worried by Meg's expatriate status. This interest draws them into the family where the issues of culture, patriotism, and using the past are battled out. Source: Publisher's blurb (back cover). |
Modern Australian Drama | Australian National University | 2014 (Semester 1) |
y
Hotel Sorrento
Sydney
Melbourne
:
Currency Press
Playbox Theatre
,
1990
Z481931
1990
single work
drama
(taught in 3 units)
Hotel Sorrento is a vivid, moving and funny play which explores the concept of loyalty both to family and to country. Three sisters come together after ten years: Hilary who lives in Sorrento with her father and her sixteen-year-old son; Pippa visiting from New York where she works in advertising; and Meg, who returns home from England with her English husband after her new novel Melancholy is shortlisted for the Booker prize. Unspoken aspects of their shared past, jolted by the autobiographical flavour of Meg's book, haunt their reunion. Coincidentally, Marge, a teacher, with a holiday house in Sorrento, reads the novel and finds it captures an Australia she knows. Her friend, Dick, however, is worried by Meg's expatriate status. This interest draws them into the family where the issues of culture, patriotism, and using the past are battled out. Source: Publisher's blurb (back cover). |
Australian Theatre and Cinema | University of Notre Dame | 2010 (Semester 1) |
y
Hotel Sorrento
Sydney
Melbourne
:
Currency Press
Playbox Theatre
,
1990
Z481931
1990
single work
drama
(taught in 3 units)
Hotel Sorrento is a vivid, moving and funny play which explores the concept of loyalty both to family and to country. Three sisters come together after ten years: Hilary who lives in Sorrento with her father and her sixteen-year-old son; Pippa visiting from New York where she works in advertising; and Meg, who returns home from England with her English husband after her new novel Melancholy is shortlisted for the Booker prize. Unspoken aspects of their shared past, jolted by the autobiographical flavour of Meg's book, haunt their reunion. Coincidentally, Marge, a teacher, with a holiday house in Sorrento, reads the novel and finds it captures an Australia she knows. Her friend, Dick, however, is worried by Meg's expatriate status. This interest draws them into the family where the issues of culture, patriotism, and using the past are battled out. Source: Publisher's blurb (back cover). |
Australian Theatre & Cinema | University of Notre Dame | 2014 (Semester 1) |