"DEVELOPMENT AND DEBATE": the 18th National Playwrights' Conference

Abstract

"The rosemary needs some lime content and soil must be well-drained and on the sandy side. Likes full sun, but will grow in half sun......"

I picked up an exercise book to jot down ideas for a speech at the final forum of the 1991 Australian National Playwrights' Conference and discovered I had packed my gardening notebook.

Since the forum was about opportunities currently existing for playwrights in Australian theatre, the rosemary note seemed apt - it occurred to me that many of us had been growing in half sun for some years, although we might have preferred full sun.