Damage

<p>Romeril's writing conveys the immediacy of the times that stems from his beginnings as an agitprop writer but he focuses on everyday lives. The plays in Damage explore twentieth-century stresses and strains the damage we do and the damage done to us. This collection introduced by John McCallum includes three previously unpublished works. </p><p><em>Jonah </em>is a Brechtian musical reinvention of Louis Stone's novel of the same name. </p><p><em>Top End</em> is a political drama set in Darwin during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.</p><p><em>Lost Weekend</em> takes a class-based look at 'Australianess'. </p><p><em>The Floating World</em> is the story of a returned serviceman's descent into madness on a cruise ship bound for Japan.</p>