Inheritance - Softcover

Rayson, Hannie

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9780868197203: Inheritance
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0868197203 ISBN 13: 9780868197203
Publisher: Currency Press, 2024

Synopsis

In the Mallee country, a family gathers to celebrate the 80th birthdays of twin sisters Dibs and Girlie. But these have been heartbreak years in the bush and the cracks are beginning to show. All have a claim to the land, but which claim will prevail and who will lose out?

A powerful family saga dealing with divisions between the city and the bush, black and white, and duty and freedom.

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About the Author

HANNIE RAYSON is a graduate of Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University. A co-founder of Theatreworks, she has served as writer- in-residence at the Mill Theatre, Playbox Theatre, La Trobe University, Monash University and VCA. Her theatre credits include Please Return to Sender (1980) and Mary (1981), each premiering at Theatreworks; and Leave It Till Monday (1984), which was first produced by the Mill Theatre. Room to Move (1985) won the Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Award for Best Original Stage Play.Her next play, Hotel Sorrento (1990), a Playbox / Theatreworks co- production, won an AWGIE Award as well as a NSW Premier's Literary Award and Green Room Award for Best Play of 1990. Falling From Grace (1994), winner of a NSW Premier's Literary Award and the Age Performing Arts Award, also premiered at Playbox, as did Competitive Tenderness (1996).Life After George (2000) opened at MTC and went on to win the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Green Room Award for Best New Australian Play, and Best New Australian Work at the 2001 Helpmann Awards. It became the first play to be nominated for the Miles Franklin Award.Her plays have been performed extensively around Australia and a number have been produced overseas.Hannie's television scripts include Sloth (ABC, Seven Deadly Sins) and co-writing two episodes of SeaChange (ABC/Artists Services). A feature film of Hotel Sorrento, produced in 1995, was nominated for ten Australian Film Institute Awards. In 1999 she received the Magazine Publishers' Society of Australia's Columnist of the Year Award for her regular contributions to HQ magazine.

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Publisher
Currency Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0868197203
ISBN 13 
9780868197203
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
128
Rating
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