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Peter Joseph Kenna (18 March 1930 – 29 November 1987) was an Australian playwright, radio actor and screenwriter. He has been called "a quasi-legendary figure in Australian theatre, never quite fashionable, but never quite forgotten either."
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Peter Kenna. A Hard God was originally produced as a stage play in 1973 as the first part part of a trilogy known as The Cassidy Album, based on playwright Peter Kenna’s own family. Kenna was one of the youngest of 13 children in a working-class Australian-Irish Catholic family, living in the Sydney suburb of Leichhardt in the 1940s.
A Hard God is a semi-autobiographical play by Peter Kenna. The initial production starred Gloria Dawn, a vaudeville star who had been persuaded to appear in a "straight" role in Kenna's The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day. The play was very popular and has come to be regarded as an Australian classic. It was published by Currency Press ...
Peter Kenna. (1930—1987) Quick Reference. (b. Sydney, 18 March 1930; d. Sydney, 29 Nov. 1987) Playwright. He wrote one of Australia's best-loved and most-performed plays, A Hard God (1973), which deals with partings, the widening ... From: Kenna, Peter in The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre » Subjects: Literature.
Peter Kenna completed A Hard God in 1973 and has referred to it as ‘the play I had been wanting to write for fifteen years’1.
Peter Joseph Kenna (1930-1987), playwright, was born on 18 March 1930 at Balmain, Sydney, eleventh of thirteen children of James O’Connor Kenna, carpenter, and his wife Agnes Charlotte, née Horne, both born in rural New South Wales.
