Chris Mead. Wondrous Strange: Seven Brief Thoughts on New Plays

Sydney: Currency Press, 2022. 176 pages. AU$29.99. ISBN: 9781760627539 (Paperback)

Authors

  • Stephen Carleton University of Queensland

Abstract

Stephen Carleton reviews, Chris Mead's, Wondrous Strange: Seven Brief Thoughts on New Plays (2022).

Author Biography

  • Stephen Carleton, University of Queensland

    Stephen Carleton is a playwright-academic whose research interests lie in contemporary Australian playwriting, Gothic Studies, Australian theatre historiography, cli-fi plays, and writing about the Australian north. His recent creative practice has focused on a series of plays looking at catastrophic climate change as speculative fiction in the absurdist mode. His most recent academic publication is Contemporary Australian Playwriting with Chris Hay (Routledge, 2023). He heads the Centre for Critical and Creative Writing in the School of Communication and Arts at UQ.  

Additional Files

Published

2023-08-10

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2023): JASAL

Section

Reviews

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How to Cite

Chris Mead. Wondrous Strange: Seven Brief Thoughts on New Plays: Sydney: Currency Press, 2022. 176 pages. AU$29.99. ISBN: 9781760627539 (Paperback). (2023). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 23(1). https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/17588