Published: June 27, 2019
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne
Zahra Newman brings Kenneth Cook’s novel to the stage in shamanic, hallucinatory performance
It’s impossible to think of Kenneth Cook’s 1961 fever-dream of white Australian masculinity, Wake in Fright, without imagining Ted Kotcheff’s film. As movies do, it colonised the memory of the book, all the more because it remains one of the most brilliant films made about Australia despite its being, notoriously, created by outsiders.
Filmed on location in Broken Hill, Kotcheff’s film is a visceral evocation of the paradoxical claustrophobia of the outback. You can almost smell the sweat as the hapless English teacher, John Grant, is dragged into the underworld of his subconscious fears and desires.
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