Kelver Hartley A Life in Progress A playscript by Foveaux KIRBY Brisbane: Boombana Publications, 2004 (121 pages, 205 x 135 mm, Sewn PB, ill., ISBN 187654211X)

Kelver Hartley (1909-1988), the eccentric Foundation Professor of French at the University of Newcastle, Australia, achieved local fame when he died leaving to his university a legacy valued at close to $2 million after spending his last years living as a pauper.

An academic who chose to live as a recluse may seem an unlikely subject for a theatrical work. But rumours about Hartley's life abounded, and he made no attempt to dispel them, indeed encouraging them by the occasional enigmatic comment. This eccentricity itself, stemming perhaps from an inability, or unwillingness, to separate fantasy from reality, appeared to Foveaux Kirby to constitute rich material for a play drawing on all the resources of multimedia presentation. The result is by no means a conventional dramatised life story, but rather a fantasy and a puzzle boldly constructed from factual and fictional elements, including large shreds of Hartley's own creative writing. It is so true to character, however, that his biographer, Ken Dutton, has no doubt that Hartley would have entirely approved of this portrayal.

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