''Furious'' is an Australian play script by
Michael Gow
Michael Gow is an Australian playwright and director most famed for his 1986 work '' Away''.
Early life
As a student at Sydney University, Gow acted and directed with the Dramatic Society from 1973-1976. After graduation, Gow went on to act prof ...
, first performed in 1991.
The play centers on family secrets, betrayal, and the exploration of the age of consent for homosexual males.
Of the play, the
Sydney Morning Herald praised it saying "its intensity and energy, it was as if Gow had captured an emotional state and hurled it like a thunderbolt upon the stage for us all to see".
In her book ''The Body in the Library'', Leigh Dale comments that the play "stages a gothicized and problematical version of the trope of the liberation of the insane".
References
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1991 plays
Plays by Michael Gow