Robert Reid continues his isolation reviews of Australian plays with Angela Fewster’s Black Crysanthemums
According to John McCallum, Adelaide playwright Angela Fewster play Black Chrysanthemums “roused some comment” at the 1981 Australian National Playwrights’ Conference. Over the next couple of years it saw productions at the Nimrod Downstairs in Sydney, 117 Bouverie Street in Melbourne and the Australian National University in Canberra.
In the second of his isolation series on the invisible canon of Australian plays, Robert Reid casts a 21st century eye over the text.
Robert Reid is co-editor and co-founder of Witness and runs our educational resources. He is a playwright, director and academic. His award-winning plays have been produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company and his own independent companies. He is artistic director of the games-based performance company, Pop Up Playground, and his Platform Paper on theatre and digital marketing was published by Currency Press in 2011. He recently completed his PhD in Australian Theatre History.
