Australian artists
What is the sum of us? Are we, as Australians, more than beer and cricket? As Australian artists, more than a floundering voice struggling for independence from our European and American counterparts? Are we more than the sum of our familial parts? Or is that precisely who we are? Playwright Hannie Rayson’s HOTEL SORRENTO, seeks to address these heady questions, via an examination of the dynamics of the Moynihan family – terrain as diverse, volatile and complex as Australia itself.At the core of the family, indeed, the play, are three sisters (a three-pronged relationship many a famous playwright has chosen to explore). Hilary, the eldest, is a single mother who has never left Sorrento; tending to their ageing father while raising her son alone after the death of her husband. Meg, the middle sister, has dusted the ‘dirt’ of Australia from her soul and relocated to England, where she lives with her British husband Edwin and has since penned a critically praised novel called Melancholy. Pippa is the youngest; a vibrant neophyte New Yorker who has returned to her homeland with the assignment of peddling American margarine on our shores. Although the three are outwardly civil, it is clear from the onset of the action that some
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Approximate Word count = 1061
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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