Richard Davey

Richard Davey

Richard Innes Davey (1938 -) is an actor, director and writer. He is the founder of the Round Earth Company and advocate for the understanding of the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station on Sarah Island on the West Coast of Tasmania.

Over ten years of the Round Earth Theatre Company at Strahan, and work on Sarah Island as a guide, Davey's work has had significance in helping tourists understand the penal station and its context, where previously there had been scattered and not very accessible research. "The Ship that Never Was", written by Davey, is Australia's longest running play about the successful escape of 10 convicts from Sarah Island, with over 5000 performances and continuing to be performed nightly at Strahan. [ABC Radio National, " [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/artworks/stories/2007/2085488.htm Artworks] ", ABC Radio, 11 November, 2007. Accessed October 6, 2008]

His book "The Sarah Island Conspiracies - Being an account of twelve voyages to Macquarie Harbour and Sarah Island", which was short listed for a major prize in Hobart in 2005, complements the work of Richard Flanagan's "Gould's Book of Fish". They both use the painting by William Buelow Gould of the Weedy sea dragon on the covers of their books.

A good explanation about Davey and his presence on the West Coast of Tasmania is found in Nicholas Shakespeare's "In Tasmania" - which also provides a connection of Davey's with a much earlier stage of Tasmanian history.

Daveys long lasting interest in Shakespeare's "King Lear" saw production in November 2007 of an adpatation in "The Madness of King Lear" [ [http://www.australianstage.com.au/reviews/tasmania/the-madness-of-king-lear-945.html Australian Stage Online - The Madness of King Lear ] ] in Hobart, Tasmania.

Work

* Davey, Richard, (2002) "The Sarah Island conspiracies : being an account of twelve voyages made by one G.K. to Macquarie Harbour on the western coast of Van Diemens Land 1822-1833" Strahan, Tas. : Round Earth Co., ISBN 0975005103 (Reproduction of a memoir dated 1896 authored by an anonymous clerk G.K. )

References

Further reading

* Shakespeare, Nicholas, "In Tasmania " Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2007. ISBN 1741669060

See also

* Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania
* Macquarie Harbour


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