Lovely Lovely Sometimes Ugly

Patricia Cornelius

In Lovely Lovely Sometimes Ugly, a collection of four plays by one of Australia’s most fearless playwrights, Patricia Cornelius displays all her skill, wit, beauty and anger, and serves them up like a still beating heart on a chipped plate. Cornelius’s signature grungy poetic style is at its finest in the early play Love, a brutally beautiful journey into the emotional core of three broken souls in a broken world. SLUT, a short, sharp stab into the heart of internalised misogyny, Cornelius explores the life and perceived crimes of Lolita, a schoolgirl whose sexual confidence both frightens and fascinates her peers. In The Club takes us into the adrenalin-fuelled, macho-pumped world of professional footballers and its intersection with slut-shaming and issues of consent. And in the sweeping, Lorca-inspired The House of Bernadette, the family of women left behind after the death of a patriarch is a goldmine of female desire, sexual repression, and individual compromise.

[Her work] channels the power of resisting received literary tradition in order to open up a space where the lives of characters on the margins can become vessels of universal truths.

- Windham Campbell Award judges

Awards
Windham Campbell Award 2019
Release
Aug-2019
ISBN
9781760622787
RRP (AUD)
$23.99
Pages
204
Format
Paperback & ebook
Category
Playtext collection

Patricia Cornelius

PATRICIA CORNELIUS is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. She has written over 25 plays. Her prizes include the 2011 Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Literary Awards, the Patrick White Playwright’s Award, the Australian Writers’ Foundation Playwriting.

Currency Press

Currency Press is Australia’s leading performing arts publisher.

Lovely Lovely Sometimes Ugly
Rights
World, all languages
Contact
Claire Grady
Email
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