Author Archives: Jack Hibberd

This is Jack Hibberd’s most popular play, written in 1968 (in London!), it still enjoys some 16 productions a year, mostly in the country, whose denizens it satirizes. Dimboola is an audience participation play in which the audience ‘become’ guests … Continue reading →

Jack’s next production was BRAIN-ROT, subtitled an Evening of Pathology and Violence, Love and Friendship, again at the University of Melbourne, in1968. It contained short plays such as Who? and One of Nature’s Gentlemen, dramatic and comic attacks on mateship, … Continue reading →

Written for the 10th anniversary of La Mama, a short monodrama, it was performed there in August 1967, and published in Meanjin 3/1967.

This is jack’s first play and was produced at the University of Melbourne in 1967 (directed by David Kendall), enjoying a huge success. It had productions around Australia in the following two years, all professional. W4 sparked a surge in … Continue reading →