"We are the people of the sixties. We are the players in a great revolution,
forged not by men at war, but by men in love." Peter George
This is the story of three women, three marriages and one husband. After the
charismatic radical, Professor Peter George, crashes a light plane on an
island in Bass Strait, his death brings his three wives together.
From Paris and Marxism in 1968, through feminism into cyberspace, George
married the 'it' girl of the successive generations. In the three marriages we
see the progress of Australia's intellectual and political life from the idealistic
sixties to the pragmatic nineties. From the barricades to the world wide web.
This is a play about the radical baby boomers who defected to the other side,
and those who have tried to keep the faith. It is also about the revenge of the
supposedly apathetic and cynical Generation Xers. Are we witnessing the
death of idealism? Or is irony the only strategy for the new miillenium?
Published by Currency Press 2000
World Premiere Melbourne Theatre Company, transferred to Sydney Theatre
Company and toured nationally Overseas productions include Duchess
Theatre, London Centaur Theatre Company, Quebec, The English Theatre,
Frankfurt Germany, Vienna English Theatre, Vienna and Slovenian National
theatre, Slovenia.
Winner 2001 Australian Writers’ Guild Award for Best New Play
Winner 2001 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
Winner of five 2001 Green Room Awards including Best New Australian Play
