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Summer of the Aliens : ウィキペディア英語版 | Summer of the Aliens
''Summer of the Aliens'' is a semi-autobiographical,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nowra's Twelfth of Never )〕 1990s play written by Louis Nowra. The play is an often humorous, unsentimental coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy, Lewis, who is obsessed with flying saucers, UFO abductions and imagines aliens are invading the earth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SUMMER OF THE ALIENS )〕 It was first written as a radio play and won the 1990 Prix Italia for Fiction (as an ABC radio play).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reviews )〕 It was first broadcast on 30 October 1989.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Summer of the Aliens radio listing )〕 Louis Nowra adapted it for the stage. The version published by Currency Press is for the theatre. ==Synopsis==
Lewis lives in a housing commission suburb on the outskirts of the city, Melbourne with his single mother, sister, and grandmother, who is rapidly approaching senility. Lewis' obsessions with aliens masks his own adolescent confusion about the changing world around him. His best friend is local tomboy, Dulcie, a spirited though troubled young woman who has her own confusions about womanhood. Meanwhile, Lewis' friend, Brian, can only think of losing his virginity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louis Nowra; Summer of the Aliens )〕 Lewis world changes forever when his itinerant father, Eric, suddenly returns home, and Lewis discovers Dulcie's heartbreaking secret. The three-act play is set in 1962, the year of the Cuban missile crisis.
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