2 Acts / 3M, 3F / Multiple sets / Strong language
Burke is an ex-con. O'Hara is an invalid. Both are mongrels, and both are
writers. United by their tenacity as well as by their relationship with the
powerful Elaine, they make an uneasy bond, a bond forged out of rivalry,
affection and suspicion. Mongrels is a highly adult play, brutal and comic by
turns, a study of love, ambition and human capacity for survival, set in the
ferment of the Australian theatre in the 1970s.
Published by Currency Press 1993
Winner 1992 Australian Writer’s Guild Award for Best Play
Winner 1992 Sydney Critics' Circle Award
