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Overview Jane Harrison’s Rainbow’s End  (2007) is a powerful Australian play set in 1950s regional Victoria, a period defined by racial segregation, dispossession, and government control over Aboriginal lives. Centred on the Dear family, three Indigenous women living on the fringes of Shepparton, the play intertwines personal aspiration with political struggle. Harrison situates the characters’ fight for dignity and opportunity against key historical backdrops such as the for

Overview Sunset Boulevard  (1950), directed by Billy Wilder, is a masterful critique of Hollywood’s illusory glamour and the corrosive nature of fame. Set against the backdrop of post-war Los Angeles, the film traces the doomed entanglement of Joe Gillis, an opportunistic screenwriter, and Norma Desmond, a former silent film icon consumed by delusions of past glory. Interrogating the tension between reality and fantasy, Wilder strategically exposes the psychological and moral

Overview Sophocles’ Oedipus the King  stands as one of the defining works of Greek tragedy, renowned for its precise dramatic construction and its exploration of human limitation. Set in Thebes, the play follows King Oedipus as he attempts to uncover the cause of a devastating plague afflicting his city. His search for truth becomes a journey into his own past, where he discovers that he has unwittingly fulfilled a prophecy that foretold he would kill his father and marry his