Living in Black Holes: Five Plays - Paperback

by Bill Reed (Author)

LIVING IN BLACK HOLES is a first-time collection of five of Bill Reed's most popular and/or performed plays. The works collected here are: Mr Siggie Morrison with his Comb and PaperBurke's CompanyTruganinniBullsh (including More Bullsh)Cass Butcher BuntingEach play has been 'modernised', in that the playwright has changed the plots as necessary to bring them up-to-date and brought the colloquialisms to be more familiar to the modern ear. Here and there, staging, too, has been altered to reflect modern-theatre's economies of scale. Settings and characterisations, though, have not been changed.

Author Biography

Bill Reed is a novelist, playwright and short-story writer. He has had eleven plays professionally produced for the stage, and twelve novels published by leading Australian book publishers, plus award-wining short stories. Burke's Company was his first play and was performed widely on the Australian stage, as well as in London. He has worked as editor and journalist both in Australia and overseas. He has won national competitions for drama and for long- and short-fiction. He now lives in Sri Lanka.