Honour

Gus and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a pushy young female journalist?on assignment to profile Gus?quite deliberately seeks to undermine that understanding. The fallout is dreadful?but beautifully and convincingly portrayed in all its painful consequences.

Literature & Fiction

Murray-Smith, Joanna

Dramas & Plays

Dramatist's Play Service

Switzerland

A reconciliation between a mother and the daughter she gave away at birth. Anna is a successful film editor in her 40s who has defined herself through her political conscience. Living alone in a cold, stylish apartment she believes she has come to terms with her history, until a young woman called Billie arrives at her door. Billie acts in soap operas, doesn't believe in political action and wants a mother. Together these two fractured women confront the implications of distance; between then and now, between generations and between the one who gave away and the one who was let go.

Love Child (Current Theatre)

Humor & Entertainment

Currency Press

“The teenager, the bride to be, the exhausted young mother, the lonely widow . . . they are funny and often touching in these four monologues deftly written by Joanna Murray-Smith. Little gems, as observant as anything in Alan Bennet’s Talking Heads—and considerably less static.”—Guardian

Bombshells (Standard Plays)

Nick Hern Books

The Gift

Margot Mason, a thinly veiled version of Germaine Greer, has writer’s block following publication of her groundbreaking polemic, The Cerebral Vagina, when in through the French windows steps one of her ex-students—with a gun. This play frequently says the unsayable and gets away with it under cover of the spiraling comedy.

The Female of The Species

Gus and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a pushy young female journalist—on assignment to profile Gus—quite deliberately seeks to undermine that understanding. The fallout is dreadful—but beautifully and convincingly portrayed in all its painful consequences.

Honour (Nick Hern Books)

Bombshells

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