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History
The Mick Young Play Award was supported by the Mick Young Scholarship Trust and administered by the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA). The trust abruptly dissociated itself from the prize in 2003, to some backlash, after the prize was awarded in 2002 to Juliet Lamont's Strange Fruit.
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A joint initiative of the Mick Young Scholarship Trust and the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Administration
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2002
winner Strange Fruit 2003 single work drama'Set in a hippy utopia, Strange Fruit explores the lives of Venus and Mouse, a couple of wild children of the 70’s dropout generation, as they wrestle with their sexuality and lack of boundaries.
'When Gripper, an older dope grower with tales of the world, turns his attention to Venus, all hell breaks loose. Paradise becomes a war zone and freedom becomes a trap.'
Source: Production blurb.
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Year: 2001
Works About this Award
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The Play that was too Fruity for Labor's Moral Guardians 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 June 2003; (p. 1, 4)
