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| Leading Australian playwright, Stephen Sewell, talks about the impact of terrorism on the Australian psyche and his work | | Date Created: Jul 27, 2005, 06:00 AM |
 He wrote the script for chilling movies such as The Boys and Lost Things. His plays bristle with ideas as well as drama and his many titles, including The Blind Giant is Dancing, Welcome the Bright World and Sisters, are studied in schools and universities across Australia. So how does one of the nation's leading writers make sense of the recent wave of terrorism and violence and how is it affecting his future work?
Stephen Sewell is about to leave for an overseas Festival where his powerful drama, Myth, Propaganda & Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America, is to get its first international production. But just prior to departure, Netvideo caught up with him at his Bondi Beach apartment to ponder the state of the world. He talks about 21st Century challenges for a social critic and the crisis for democracy, for the rule of law and for even the very ecology that supports life on our planet.
He also describes his forthcoming direction of the film version of his widely admired play, Sisters, staring Stellan Skarsgard, Jacqueline MacKenzie and Rachel Blake.
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