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Manuscript Name | Papers of Phil Motherwell |
Manuscript Number | MSS 168 |
Last Updated | April 2020 |
Extent | 1 m. (3 boxes + 2 AV) |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Original notebooks, manuscripts, drafts of scripted plays and short films by Phil Motherwell. |
Literary
This collection relates to the career of Australian actor, playwright and novelist Phil Motherwell and includes personal papers, unpublished drafts and audiovisual works
c1970-1990
Phillip Motherwell was born on 30 December 1946. He began his career as a playwright writing for Melbourne theatre companies in 1969. Often directing and acting in his own works, he began a long association with the Pram Factory Group and La Mama Theatre through to the 1980s. Appearing as an actor in the films Monkey Grip, Pure Shit and Mad Max, his own written works often echoed his real life experiences with petty crime and drug use. He published two novellas in 1977, developed several unrealised film scripts and scripted many unpublished plays which were produced in Australian and overseas theatres by notable companies such as Nimrod Theatre and Troupe Theatre. He died in Melbourne on 9 November 2014.
References:
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.) : ’Motherwell, Phil (1946-)’
AustLit : ‘Phil Motherwell’ https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A14024 retrieved 18 November 2019
The Australian Live Peformance Database https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/314 retrieved 18 November 2019
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: Copying of material for private study and research is approved
Papers of Phil Motherwell, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 168, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
The collection was acquired in 1990 from Phil Motherwell
Motherwell’s papers have been arranged in the order in which they were transferred to Special Collections, with the exception of the audiovisual material which are described at the end of the box list
Phil Motherwell 1946-2014 – Archives
Australian theatre – 20th century
performance
Melbourne (Victoria) - History
Phil Motherwell 1946-2014
La Mama Theatre
Pram Factory Group
Actors, playwrights, authors
Draft manuscripts and notebooks.
Folder 1
Miscellaneous drafts
Folder 2
Film script, Fat Tuesday
Folder 3
Notebook, The Bodgie Tree [unpublished drama]
Notebook, Steal Away Home [drama] - 1st and 2nd drafts
Notebook, The Man who Lost his Head [unpublished drama]
Folder 4
Notebook, The Man who Lost his Head [unpublished drama]
Notebook, The Twine
Novella, Eddie Keally from Collingwood
Manuscript, Fling, Vol. 4, no. 4, Fling Poetry, Melbourne, 1984
Folder 5
Rehearsal notes, Held in Camera [unpublished drama]
Rehearsal notes, Fat Tuesday [film script]
Folder 6
Manuscript, Fitzroy Crossing
Manuscript, Steal Away Home [drama]
Folder 7
Manuscript, Steal Away Home [drama]
Folder 8
Manuscript, Steal Away Home [drama]
Folder 9
Manuscripts, Hat Trick [film script]
Manuscript, Fitzroy Crossing
Manuscript, The Surgeon’s Arms [drama]
Manuscript, Meat Flag
Manuscript, untitled
Folder 10
Novella, Mr Bastard - 1st draft
Manuscript, Fitzroy Crossing, rewrite January 1990
Folder 11
Notebook, Fitzroy Crossing
Folder 12
Manuscript, Maundy Thursday
Extracts, Fitzroy Crossing
Folder 13
Drafts, Fitzroy Crossing Two
Novella drafts, Eddie Keally from Collingwood
Folder 14
Manuscript extracts
Folder 15
Manuscript extracts
Folder 16
Manuscript extracts
Folder 17
Manuscript extracts
Folder 18
Manuscript, Fitzroy Crossing
Manuscript, The Native Rose [unpublished drama]
Manuscript, The Bodgie Tree [unpublished drama]
Folder 19
Manuscript, The Man who Lost his Head [unpublished drama]
Manuscript, The Devil’s Elbow
Folder 20
Manuscript, Held in Camera [unpublished drama]
Manuscript, Pecking Orders [unpublished drama]
Manuscript, The Yellow Girl’ [unpublished drama] x 2 copies
Audiovisual Material
AV1 - digitised
Film, 16mm workprint - Punch and Judy (Phil Motherwell, Australia, c1980s)
AV2 - digitised
Film, 16mm B+W Print – The Battle of the Grimaces (Phil Motherwell, Australia, c1980s)