The Golden Age
Golden Age, The Author: Louis Nowra
First Performance: 1985, Melbourne
Published: 1985; rev. 1988
Genre: Drama in 2 acts; English with some patois
Setting: Hobart, Collingwood, and south-west forests, Tasmania, and Berlin, 1939–45
Cast: 12m, 7f
Peter Archer, a geologist and son of a Hobart doctor, sets out with his working-class friend Francis Morris, an engineer, to explore the wilderness of the south-west forests of Tasmania. They come across a tribe of curious individuals, descendants of 19th-century escaped convicts and failed colonists, left behind by modern civilization and speaking an odd patois of archaic British dialects and swearwords. Although their matriarch Ayre tries to explain, Peter and Francis remain bemused and rather frightened by these strange creatures. Francis begins to be attracted to...
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