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If you want to have every prejudice and stereotype about the yartz in Australia confirmed, read this interview with self-proclaimed communist playwright and confirmed Whitlam-era throwback Stephen Sewell (or is it really Sewer?) in today's Australian, containing such gems as this:-
ONE of his works will in all likelihood be shortly staged there, but Sydney playwright Stephen Sewell is of the firm opinion that most theatre in New York is rubbish.
"It's terrible," he says.
"It's totally uninspiring."
His conclusion stems not from offended aesthetic sensitivities, nor from any ingrained cultural xenophobia.
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Stephen Sewell, once the angry young man, is now the angry middle-aged man.
He is angry about the massively propagandised state of the media, angry about the rightwards drift of Western politics, and angry about the erosion of the main thing which allowed him and other members of his generation to develop into skilled, professional artists: unemployment benefits.
"This was a wonderful time when it wasn't so hard to get the dole," he says of his early years.