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Huw Griffiths, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney

I can't imagine anybody would come out of On The Beach and not hold their loved ones just that little bit closer

Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company

Review: On The Beach, directed by Kip Williams.

When Nevil Shute wrote his 1957 novel On the Beach, the world was emerging from the devastation of the second world war to confront new fears.

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