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Parramatta girls and Eyes to the floor / Alana Valentine.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Currency playsPublisher: Strawberry Hills : Currency Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 153 pages : illustrations, ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781925005165
  • 192500516X
Other title:
  • Eyes to the floor
Uniform titles:
  • Eyes to the floor
  • Parramatta girls
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A822.3 23
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book 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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