“Walking naked between vapidity and madness…” Dorothy Hewett
Feminist Theatre
Various references and articles about - Home Cooking Theatre Company and my plays.
‘Call of the Wild’ by Jenny Kemp
Converging Realities: Feminism in Australian Theatre.
1994
Peta Tait, Currency Press.
See chapter on Home Cooking Theatre Co in ‘Subverting Forms’.
‘The Companion to Australian Theatre’ on Women’s Theatre.
1995
Researched and co-wrote the entry with Hilary Glow. Published by Currency Press.
A consideration of the many drafts and copious correspondence relating to the final version over a five year period and across the country.
Magda as goddess
PLAYING With TIME: Women writers for performance
1995
Edited by Colleen Chesterman with Virginia Baxter & Playworks.
‘The gust of wind’, Ethel Spowers 1931
(Re)-Marking Time
1996
(Biographical performance essay) in, Telling Time - celebrating ten years of women writing for performance, published by Playworks.
Cover Currency Press
AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S DRAMA: texts and feminisms
1997
Edited by Peta Tait and Elizabeth Schafer, Currency Press.
An anthology of seven plays including ‘Running Up A Dress’.
Introduction by Peta Tait and Elizabeth Schafer
STUDIES in AUSTRALIAN THEATRE
Cover Rodopi Press
THEATRE AUSTRALIA (un)limited: Australian Theatre Since the 1950s - Geoffrey Milne
Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York - 2004
SEE: pp 64, 214 and Chapter 16 Women’s Theatre Co. pp 282-3
Cover: ‘Summer of the 17th Doll’
CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALiAN DRAMA - Leonard Radic
Brandl & Schlesinger, NSW - 2006
SEE: pp 284 - 5
Cover Currency Press
BELONGING: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century
- John Mc Callum.
Currency Press, Sydney - 2009
SEE: pp 269-70, ‘Dragged Screaming to Paradise’, ‘Running Up a Dress’ and p 295.