Remember Ronald Ryan
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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On the morning of 3 February 1967, Ronald Ryan became the last man to be hanged in Australia — an event that shook the nation's conscience and ignited a fierce debate about capital punishment that reverberates to this day. Barry Dickins' powerful stage play Remember Ronald Ryan resurrects that haunting moment in Australian history, chronicling the final days of a man whose execution divided a country and forced it to confront the darkest machinery of its justice system. With an introduction by Philip Opas, this work presents the human face behind a headline, stripping away the mythology to reveal a story of fallibility, grief, and institutional power. Part of the Current Theatre Series published by Currency Press in association with the Playbox Theatre Centre of Monash University, this play stands as one of Australian drama's most morally urgent works. Dickins writes with raw emotional honesty and a poet's ear for dialogue, transforming courtroom history into an intimate, deeply felt theatrical experience. His work asks whether justice was truly served — or whether the State committed an act it could never undo — and leaves the audience to sit with that question long after the curtain falls.
Author: Barry Dickins
Format: Paperback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On the morning of 3 February 1967, Ronald Ryan became the last man to be hanged in Australia — an event that shook the nation's conscience and ignited a fierce debate about capital punishment that reverberates to this day. Barry Dickins' powerful stage play Remember Ronald Ryan resurrects that haunting moment in Australian history, chronicling the final days of a man whose execution divided a country and forced it to confront the darkest machinery of its justice system. With an introduction by Philip Opas, this work presents the human face behind a headline, stripping away the mythology to reveal a story of fallibility, grief, and institutional power. Part of the Current Theatre Series published by Currency Press in association with the Playbox Theatre Centre of Monash University, this play stands as one of Australian drama's most morally urgent works. Dickins writes with raw emotional honesty and a poet's ear for dialogue, transforming courtroom history into an intimate, deeply felt theatrical experience. His work asks whether justice was truly served — or whether the State committed an act it could never undo — and leaves the audience to sit with that question long after the curtain falls.