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The Torrents

by Oriel Gray
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781925005950
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Currency Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Currency Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 82
  • Original Price: GBP 12.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: UK
  • Item Weight: 100 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Australian & Oceanian

The gold rush is beginning to wane in Koolgalla and the editors of the Koolgalla Argus must decide between protecting old interests and investing in the future. But when the new editorial assistant, JG Milford, arrives and it turns out the 'J' stands for Jenny, she creates havoc.

A forgotten classic, The Torrents won the 1955 Best Play award alongside Summer of the Seventeenth Doll but the play never had the same impact. Perhaps it was ahead of its time. Currency is proud to republish a work whose themes of media chauvinism, environmental destruction and corruption are chillingly relevant today.

Gray, Oriel: - ORIEL GRAY (1920â "2003) was born into a politically active family in Sydney. At age eleven she began her long association with Sydney's left-wing New Theatre, firstly as a comedian and then as a writer. She was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1942 to 1950. Her first plays were five-minute radio dramas for a trade union education program. Her numerous stage plays and revues included Marx of Time, Lawson, Westernlimit, My Life is My Affair and Had We But World Enough. The Torrents shared the 1954 Playwright's Advisory Board prize with Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, and Burst of Summer won the 1958 J. C. Williamson Theatre Guild Competition. In the 1960s she became a television writer, and for nine years was a writer for the popular serial, Bellbird. Her autobiography, Exit Left: Memoirs of a Scarlet Woman, was published in 1985.

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