When the cultural cringe abated: Australian drama in the 1970s
- Written by Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
Happy and Holy: Barry Otto as Tockey, Ruth Cracknell as Cecilia McManus, Graham Rowe as Denny, Ron Hadrick as O'Halloran in a 1982 production by the Sydney Theatre Company.Photographer David Wilson.
In our Great Australian Plays series, we nominate the best of Australian drama.
If Australian drama came of age in the 1940s and 1950s, in the 1970s it...
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