Rapture
$31.95
- Paperback
72 pages
- Release Date
8 November 2002
Summary
A vivid, timely new play that shines a revealing light on Australia’s unsettled soul. The play is set among intelligent and educated people whose cynicism appears to answer all questions and who navigate uncertainty with ease. What could possibly shock or unsettle them? The answer is: faith.
When two of their number claim to have found God, the consequences are profound. Ethics and certainties are tested on a battleground of inexplicable belief. Long-term friendships are pushed to th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780868196794 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0868196797 |
| Author: | Joanna Murray-Smith |
| Publisher: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 72 |
| Release Date: | 8 November 2002 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 135mm x 210mm |
| Series: | CTS/Playbox |
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Critics Review
“A thoughtful and entertaining play, about what happens when cynicism is confronted by faith…” – DAWN (Journal of the Drama Association of Wales), Summer 2003.
“A thoughtful and entertaining play, about what happens when cynicism is confronted by faith…” – DAWN (Journal of the Drama Association of Wales), Summer 2003.
Joanna Murray-Smith
JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH’s plays have been produced throughout Australia and all over the world, including Honour, which had a public reading with Meryl Streep and was produced on Broadway in 1998, the National Theatre, London, in 2003, and on the West End with Dame Diana Rigg in 2005. Other plays include Fury; Songs for Nobodies; Switzerland; Pennsylvania Avenue; True Minds; Day One A Hotel, Evening; Rockabye; Ninety; Bombshells; Rapture; Nightfall; Redemption; Love Child; Atlanta; Flame and acclaimed adaptations of Hedda Gabler and Scenes From A Marriage, many of which have been translated into other languages. She has been nominated for and won many awards. Her novels include Truce and Judgement Rock, both published by Penguin Australia, and Sunnyside, published by Penguin Australia and Viking in the UK.
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