Table of Contents

List of Figures
Series Editor’s Preface
Editors’ Preface
Contributors’ Biographies
Acknowledgment
The Productions
Anne PENDER: Nick Enright: A Life in Theatre
Peter FITZPATRICK: Life or a Cabaret?: Nick Enright and The Boy from Oz
Susan LEVER: Masculinity, Guilt and the Moral Failures of the Body: Nick Enright’s Screenplays
Jack TEIWES: The Collaboration Process: Nick Enright and Justin Monjo’s Adaptation of Cloudstreet
Mary Ann HUNTER: Youthful Presence: Nick Enright as Teacher and A Property of the Clan
Veronica KELLY: Enright’s Mongrels as Intervention in the Canon of Contemporary Australian Drama
Adrian KIERNANDER: Enright on the Record: Evidence from the Television Archives of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Jane O’SULLIVAN: Mongrels and Young Curs: The Hounding of the Feminine in St James Infirmary, Good Works, Blackrock and Spurboard
Felicity PLUNKETT: Anxiety and a Fragmented Australia in Nick Enright’s A Man With Five Children
Julian MEYRICK: “Loved Every Minute of It”: Nimrod, Enright’s The Venetian Twins and the Invention of Popular Theatre
Susan LEVER and Anne PENDER: Summer Rain: Sweet Nostalgia
The Collaborator
George OGILVIE: Nick Enright: A Man With Many Children
Sandy GORE: Nick Enright: Friend
Karen VICKERY: Nick Enright: An Acting Teacher Recollected
Terence CLARKE: Prima Le Parole E Poi La Musica
Appendix: Works by Nick Enright

About the Author

Anne Pender is Senior Lecturer in English and Theatre Studies at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

Susan Lever is Associate Professor of English, the University of New South Wales, at the Australian Defence Force Academy, in Canberra, Australia.

Reviews

"This book makes an excellent contribution to theatre scholarship at a time when the profile of the Australian playwright seems to be slipping into curious abeyance at the hands of ‘the devising team’." - in: Theatre Research International, 34.2