Parramatta girls and Eyes to the floor / Alana Valentine.
Series: Currency playsPublisher: Strawberry Hills : Currency Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 153 pages : illustrations, ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925005165
- 192500516X
- Eyes to the floor
- Eyes to the floor
- Parramatta girls
- Girls Training School (Parramatta, N.S.W.) -- Drama
- Hay Institution for Girls (N.S.W.) -- Drama
- Girls Training School (Parramatta, NSW) -- Drama
- Girls -- Institutional care -- New South Wales -- Parramatta -- Drama
- Inmates of institutions -- New South Wales -- Parramatta -- Drama
- Girls -- Institutional care -- New South Wales -- Hay -- Drama
- Australian drama -- 21st century
- Inmates of institutions -- Australia -- Parramatta (N.S.W.) -- Drama
- Inmates of institutions -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Parramatta -- Drama
- Girls -- Institutional care -- Australia -- Parramatta (N.S.W.) -- Drama
- Girls -- Institutional care -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Drama
- Girls -- Institutional care -- New South Wales -- Hay -- Biography
- Girls -- Institutional care
- Girls -- Institutional care -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Parramatta -- Drama
- Inmates of institutions -- Australia -- Parramatta (NSW) -- Drama
- New South Wales
- Australian
- A822.3 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 822.3 VAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | signed by author | 67991 |
Based on the testimony of dozens of women from Parramatta Girls Training School, Parramatta Girls is a dramatisation of the experiences of eight inmates and their reunion forty years later. Interspersed with songand storytelling, this is a tribute to mischief and humour in the face ofhardship and inequality. Commissioned by Outback Theatre in Hay, Eyes to the Floor chronicles the experience of girls sent from Parramatta Girls Home to the Hay Girls Home for even more brutal, punitive treatment. Written to be played by young adults, this moving work emphasises the childlike vulnerability of the inmates in a world where they must find connection with each other in order to to survive. Artfully woven with movement, chorus work and poetry, it is a compelling companion work to Parramatta Girls.
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