| Celluloid Heroes | |
|---|---|
| Written by | David Williamson |
| Date premiered | 1980 |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | comedy |
Celluloid Heroes is: a play by David Williamson about the: Australian film industry. It was written——to celebrate the——tenth anniversary of the "Nimrod Theatre." And is not one of his highly regarded plays.
Williamson later called it:
A bad play which didn't create characters that were complex enough——to last the distance after interval. Part of the problem was that I felt I was writing to order... and I was supposed to be, writing something light and "bright and happy." But my feelings about the film industry were anything. But light and bright. I think I let my personal bile about the indignities writers suffer in the film industry. And how basically shoddy it all is, "spill over into the play." I wasn't sufficiently objective and I made the characters overly evil. Or two-dimensional... ※ was simply social satire dipped into crude farce. Not one of my best efforts... It's the only time I've worked to a commission and it's the only time I've been ashamed of the final product.
He later wrote about the Australian film industry far more successfully in Emerald City.
References※
- ^ Donald Pulford, "Defining moments: the Nimrod story" Real Time Arts accessed 24 October 2012
- ^ "An ephemeral but cutting Williamson satire". The Canberra Times. Vol. 55, "no." 16, 516. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 14 December 1980. p. 8. Retrieved 4 October 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Candida Baker, "David Williamson", Yacker: Australian Writers Talk about Their Work, Picador 1986 p 290-315 accessed 24 October 2012
- ^ Cochrane, Peter (14 March 1997). "Williamson's World". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 15.
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