Record ID:
35090002 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 79085592
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1945
Death:
  • 2011
Associated with:
  • Australia
Fields of activity:
  • Australian drama Aboriginal Australians--Drama
Occupations:
  • Authors, Aboriginal Australian
Used for:
  • Merritt, Bob, 1945-2011
  • Merritt, Robert James, 1945-2011
Notes:
  • His The cake man, 1978 t.p. (Robert J. Merritt) p. i (Robert James Merritt, b. 1945)
  • Australian Plays website, viewed on 13 May 2019 ROBERT MERRITT (1945 - 2011) was brought up on Erambie Aboriginal Mission, NSW. The Cake Man, written in isolation in Bathurst, was an attempt to express the root causes of Aboriginal despair. It was first performed in 1975 by the newly-formed Black Theatre in Redfern, followed by a number of successful productions. In the 1980s he made a number of documentary films, was Chair of the Aboriginal Arts Board, the first Aboriginal member of the Australia Council and Chair of the Festival of Pacific Arts in 1988) https://australianplays.org/playwright/CP-mertoo
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)9902
  • 000000090509
  • abv02051573
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX25209
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc