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Sanctuary is the story of Australia's most successful expatriate journalist cum foreign affairs commentator, Mr Robert 'Bob' King, who has made a career for himself as a distinguished journalist with Time magazine and then moved to anchorman on CBS. He comes home to Australia to live in relative isolation at the age of 48 in Sanctuary Cove. Nobody can quite understand this move. A young Ph.D. student comes up to check facts about the biography he is writing about Mr Bob King's life. Mr King is canny enough to realise that the biography is probably not going to be totally favourable but he gets a shock when he realises just how unfavourable the biography is.
It is a look at the way our so-called free press is actually a fairly tightly controlled and un-free press; it's also a look at the way we lie about the nature of our achievements in our life. The conflict between the two protagonists on these issues gets quite acute. David Williamson.(ii).
Adaptations
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form
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Sanctuary
( dir. Robin De Crespigny
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Australia
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Spandau Films
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1995
Z1606917
1995
single work
film/TV
Robert 'Bob' King is a TV reporter with an international reputation, home from the US after years spent covering major conflicts. John is an academic who has written a book exposing the lies of Bob's career and has come to confront him about them. It's a conflict of style as well as substance: the rich, physically imposing Bob and the nerdy, sweating John. At heart, the film is about ruthlessness, specifically the point at which someone trades honesty for personal gain.
Notes
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Dedication: For Felix
Production Details
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First produced by the Playbox Theatre Centre, C.U.B. Malthouse,Melbourne, 4 May 1994. Director: Aubrey Mellor.
Contents
- Introduction, single work column (p. iv)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Insidious David Williamson
1998
single work
column
biography
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , March no. 174 1998; (p. 21) -
Untitled
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Listener (NZ) , 9 December 1996;
— Review of Sanctuary 1994 single work drama -
[Review] Sanctuary [and] Falling from Grace
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 28 1996; (p. 170-173)
— Review of Sanctuary 1994 single work drama ; Falling from Grace 1994 single work drama -
Media Drawn Under the Williamson Pen
1995
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 25 October 1995; (p. 4) -
Untitled
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Star-Times , 29 October 1995;
— Review of Sanctuary 1994 single work drama
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Culminating in Death
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 168 1995; (p. 54-55)
— Review of Sanctuary 1994 single work drama ; Remember Ronald Ryan 1994 single work drama -
[Review] Sanctuary [and] Falling from Grace
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 28 1996; (p. 170-173)
— Review of Sanctuary 1994 single work drama ; Falling from Grace 1994 single work drama -
[Review] Sanctuary [and] Cosi
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 May 1994; (p. 17)
— Review of Sanctuary 1994 single work drama ; Cosi 1992 single work musical theatre -
Moral Crusade with No White Knight
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 May 1994; (p. 17)
— Review of Sanctuary 1994 single work drama -
Cross-Examination Falls Short of Tension
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 15 May 1994; (p. 7)
— Review of Sanctuary 1994 single work drama ; Cosi 1992 single work musical theatre -
Introduction
1994
single work
column
— Appears in: Sanctuary 1994; (p. iv) The Great Man : Sanctuary : Two Plays 2000; (p. 77-78) -
Quiet Crusader
1994
single work
biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 16 July 1994; (p. 14-15) -
A Homecoming for Williamson
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 April 1994; (p. 15) -
Media Drawn Under the Williamson Pen
1995
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 25 October 1995; (p. 4) -
The Play's the Thing
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 30 April 1994; (p. 11)
- Sanctuary Cove, Hope Island - Sanctuary Cove area, Gold Coast, Queensland,