A Man with Five Children

Author(s): Nick Enright

Plays

Gerry is a documentary filmmaker who, one day each year, follows five children around with a camera. He shows the results annually on television. Yet for the children who grow up under Gerry's (and the nation's) watchful eye, the experience creates its own dynamic. Are the participants his subjects, his children, or his creations? What responsibility does a storyteller have, to his subjects, his audience, and himself? How much does Gerry take? Does the presence of the camera distort the lives it is supposed to be capturing? Spanning more than twenty years, this play invites you into a world of fractured celebrity and distorted vision. (5 male, 4 female).


Product Information

Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award Play Award 2003.

General Fields

  • : 9780868196916
  • : Currency Press Pty Ltd
  • : Currency Press
  • : 0.13
  • : June 2003
  • : 210mm X 135mm
  • : Australia
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Nick Enright
  • : Paperback
  • : 822
  • : 96
  • : Theatre, drama; Drama texts, plays
  • : b/w photos