Patrick White Archive

Sarah Pierse has absolutely nailed the role of Miss Docker in this wonderful production of Patrick White’s A Cheery Soul directed by Kip Williams. As well as being a visual delight (thanks Elizabeth Gadsby and costume designer Alice Babidge), Williams has assembled …

Patrick White’s 1947 play The Ham Funeral is the stuff of legend. It was inspired by William Dobell’s painting The Dead Landlord, and loosely based on White’s recollections as a young man in London. White’s absurdist tragicomedy is a visionary text written …