Synopsis:
The years 1966-68 were at the cusp of reform', writes Katharine Brisbane. 'The writing here reflects a deep sense of the need for change, and awareness of the ground beginning to give way beneath the feet.' Conscription and the Vietnam War were the major public issues of the 1966 federal election and the turmoil is vividly debated in Alan Hopgood's previously unpublished Private Yuk Objects. History, identity and racial attitudes also reflect a growing diversity of opinion; but distinctive in this volume, says Brisbane, 'is the sudden and spontaneous elevation of language': language to satirise, to reveal class and credo, to ennoble. It is in these brief years that a truly local form of contemporary theatre began to make itself felt.
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