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Pamela Payne Heckenberg

Pamela Payne Heckenberg reviews 'Patrick White' by May-Brit Akerholt and 'Jack Hibberd' by Paul McGillick

August 1988, no. 103 01 August 1988
Although it is accidental that these two books have been released simultaneously (they just happen to be numbers two and three in a series of monographs on Australian playwrights) it’s a fortuitous accident. In form, they provide examples of two markedly contrasting and entirely appropriate methods of dealing with the work of a playwright. And historically, both Patrick White and Jack Hibberd ha ... (read more)