Synopsis
Damage - A Collection of Plays
$29.99
Published by Currency Press
Large Mixed Cast
Jonah - A Brechtian musical reinvention of Louis Stone's novel of the same name
Top End - A political drama set in Darwin during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor
Lost Weekend - Takes a class-based look at 'Australianess'
The three titles above are published together with Romeril's best-known play -
The Floating World - The story of a returned serviceman's descent into madness on a cruise ship bound for Japan
Romeril's writing conveys the immediacy of the times that stems from his beginnings as an agitprop writer, but he focuses on everyday lives
The plays in Damage explore the twentieth century stresses and strains, the damage we do and the damage done to us.