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An examination of a number of Michael Gow's plays including TThe Kid', TAway', TOn Top of the World', TEurope', and T1841'. Designed to provide students at secondary or tertiary levels with an insight into Gow's work. Includes a bibliography, production history and brief biography of the playwright.
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Furious (Current theatre series)
This third volume of ASNEL Papers covers a wide range of theoretical and thematic approaches to the subject of intertextuality. Intertextual relations between oral and written versions of literature, text and performance, as well as problems emerging from media transitions, regionally instructed forms of intertextuality, and the works of individual authors are equally dealt with. Intertextuality as both a creative and a critical practice frequently exposes the essential arbitrariness of literary and cultural manifestations that have become canonized. The transformation and transfer of meanings which accompanies any crossing between texts rests not least on the nature of the artistic corpus e...
Interview with Michael Gow - Act-by-act analysis - Investigation of the play's language and social setting - Discussion of plot, characters, structure and themes - Examination-style questions - With an introduction on "Reading a play"
"In Europe a young Australian travels in pursuit of an actress with whom he has had a brief affair. ... On top of the world takes a different perspective on history. In a Gold Coast apartment a family ritual assumes awesome proportions as the dying generation and its lost children together discover a resilient new humanity--Back cover
In blazing heat, a stolen Mini hurtles towards Sydney. Inside, three unstable teenagers from the country Snake, Aspro and Dean plan a future that will begin when they collect Aspro's accident compo from the Department.
Cast ages: adult.