Lovely Lovely Sometimes Ugly

<p>In<em> Lovely Lovely Sometimes Ugly</em> a collection of four plays by one of Australia's most fearless playwrights Patricia Cornelius displays all her skill wit beauty and anger and serves them up like a still beating heart on a chipped plate.</p><p>Cornelius's signature grungy poetic style is at its finest in the early play <em>Love</em> a brutally beautiful journey into the emotional core of three broken souls in a broken world.</p><p>In <em>SLUT</em> a short sharp stab into the heart of internalised misogyny Cornelius explores the life and perceived crimes of Lolita a schoolgirl whose sexual confidence both frightens and fascinates her peers.</p><p><em>In The Club</em> takes us into the adrenalin-fuelled macho-pumped world of professional footballers and its intersection with slut-shaming and issues of consent.</p><p>And in the sweeping Lorca-inspired <em>The House of Bernadette</em> the family of women left behind after the death of a patriarch is a goldmine of female desire sexual repression and individual compromise.</p><p><em>[Her work] channels the power of resisting received literary tradition in order to open up a space where the lives of characters on the margins can become vessels of universal truths. </em>Windham-Campbell Award judges.</p>