Before beginning work on The Dressmaker, BB
had begun on a novel set in the USA entitled He's the Captan of the Team. This seems to have no connection with The Dressmaker...
Intertextuality and Influence
Louise Page
At thirteen, profoundly affected by a Saturday matinee of John McGrath
's Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun and by the idea that theatre can change people's lives, she decided to be a playwright.
Page, Louise. “Tissue”. Plays by Women: Volume One, edited by Michelene Wandor and Michelene Wandor, Methuen, pp. 75-103.