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The Town Hall Affair brings Germaine Greer's 1970s feminist debate roaring into the present

  • Written by Bryoni Trezise, Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW
Maura Tierney (second from left) plays Germaine Greer, Scott Shepherd (far left) and Ari Fliakos (second from right) both play Norman Mailer, and Greg Mehrten as Diana Shilling (far right). Prudence Upton

The moment was 1971, Labour Day’s eve. The context: a biting critique of feminism published by journalist-novelist Norman Mailer in...

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