The Great Man & Sanctuary

Two plays that investigate the divergence of self-interest and truth in public life ...

The Great Man

Jack Barclay, great man of the Australian Labor Party, is dead. And with him has died the last remaining connection to the social reforms of the 1970s Labor governments

New Labor is thriving in its place, proudly parading economic reform as the defining agenda for the new century

At his funeral, family, friends and party faithful will gather to celebrate his life. Or will they? In the grand tradition of Australian public life, each stake an individual claim to Jack’s greatness and put a personal spin on his life and contribution to the nation

The Great Man is a wickedly comic tilt at politics, greed and the craving for personal identity

Sanctuary

Robert ‘Bob’ King, an internationally renowned investigative journalist, has returned to his native Australia to retire to the relative isolation of Queensland

But the sanctuary he thought he had found himself is breached by a student about to publish King’s biography

Conflict erupts between the young idealist and the pragmatic realist as each challenges the other’s true values and motivations

A gripping story that builds in suspense to a thrilling climax, Sanctuary is published here in a revised edition