JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH's plays have been produced throughout Australia and all over the world, including Honour, which had a public reading with Meryl Streep and was produced on Broadway in 1998, the National Theatre, London, in 2003, and on the West End with Dame Diana Rigg in 2005. Other plays include Fury; Songs for Nobodies; Switzerland; Pennsylvania Avenue; True Minds; Day One A Hotel, Evening; Rockabye; Ninety; Bombshells; Rapture; Nightfall; Redemption; Love Child; Atlanta; Flame and acclaimed adaptations of Hedda Gabler and Scenes From A Marriage, many of which have been translated into other languages. She has been nominated for and won many awards. Her novels include Truce and Judgement Rock, both published by Penguin Australia, and Sunnyside, published by Penguin Australia and Viking in the UK.
A thoughtful and entertaining play, about what happens when cynicism is confronted by faith... -- DAWN (Journal of the Drama Association of Wales), Summer 2003.