Furious Mattress

ISBN: 9780868199139
Title: Furious Mattress
Author: Reeves, Melissa
Price: $21.95

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In the heartland of rural Victoria, a backyard exorcism is about to commence. Else has always been a little different, even a little difficult, but when her husband seeks support from his local religious community, what he invites into their home will take the very shape of the unspeakable.

Dashing cherished assumptions about guilt and free-will, innocence and redemption in a world of Christian religious values, Furious Mattress recasts events torn from tabloid headlines with Reeves’ signature wit and wisdom to remind us that most fundamentalists are far more familiar than the fanatics paraded before us in cautionary tales.

AUTHOR
Melissa Reeves is a Melbourne playwright. Her plays include In Cahoots, Sweetown (winner of the 1993 Jill Blewitt Memorial Playwrights Award), Great Day, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Storming Heaven, Road Movie and Salt Creek Murders (winner of the 2001 Wal Cherry Award). She has co-written a number of plays including The Girl I Love and Never Let Me Go (with Margaret Mills, Maude Davey and Nicki Redlich); Magpie (with Richard Frankland); Who’s Afraid of the Working Class (winner of the 1999 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Best Drama, two AWGIEs, and the 1999 Jill Blewitt Playwright’s Award); and Fever (with Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Christos Tsiolkas and composer Irine Vela).

Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date: 01/07/2011
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active