- 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 ofTasmania .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 ofRichard Flanagan 's "Gould's Book of Fish ". They both use the painting by William Buelow Gould of theWeedy 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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