Parramatta Girls and Eyes to the Floor
$31.99
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2014
Summary
The inmates of the Girls Training School (GTS) Parramatta had about as hard an upbringing as you can get in Australia. But theirs is also one of the great untold stories of making good in tough times.
Parramatta Girls is based on the testimony of dozens of GTS old-girls. This vibrant play is a joyous and harrowing dramatisation of the experiences of eight inmates and their reunion 40 years later. Interspersed with song and storytelling, this is a tribute to mischief and humou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925005165 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 192500516X |
| Author: | Alana Valentine |
| Publisher: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 137mm x 210mm |
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Alana Valentine
Alana Valentine
Alana Valentine’s Barbara and the Camp Dogs, co-written with Ursula Yovich, was nominated for the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2017 for Best New Australian Work and Best Original Score. Ladies Day was nominated for the Nick Enright Prize for Drama (NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 2017).
Valentine is the recipient of two Tasmanian Theatre Awards (2017) for The Tree Widows, and was also nominated for an Errol for Best Director. She has worked with Bangarra Dance Theatre as dramaturg on Dark Emu, after successful collaborations on Bennelong, Patyegarang, and ID.
In 2017, Venus Theatre Company (USA) world-premiered The Ravens, which also won the BBC International Radio Writing Award in 2013. The National Library of Australia published Dear Lindy.
Other works include The Sugar House, Ear to the Edge of Time, Letters to Lindy, and a jazz song cycle Flight Memory. Valentine is the co-recipient of a writing fellowship at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.
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