the revolutionary playwright who heard Australia, and reflected us back to ourselves
- Written by Russell Fewster, Lecturer in Performing Arts, University of South Australia
For Jack Hibberd, writing plays came from an “geographical accident”. As a young medical intern in the 1960s, he “fell in with the bohemian” Carlton Melbourne milieu that saw something in his poetry that suggested “monologues of a theatrical quality”.
These “bohemian” friends would later to go on to...





