• Title
  Item 1: Campion Decent interview by Martin Portus, 21 October 2021
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  21 October 2021
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9663661
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (3 hr., 32 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Campion Decent discusses his childhood in the Northern Beaches suburb or Mona Vale, New South Wales. He discusses his family breakdown, being different at school and his education and work experience, which led him to explore creative playwriting and his sexuality. Decent talks about his education at the University of Wollongong, University of New South Wales and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts. Decent shares about being a father to twins with two lesbian friends and talks about the deaths of his separated parents. Decent discusses Sydney’s gay culture, arts and politics and the impact of AIDs from the late 1980s, from his perspective as a playwright, editor of the Sydney Star Observer and then a director of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival in the 1990s. He covers his eclectic career in the arts and discusses his plays including ‘Unholy ghosts’, ‘Baby X’, ‘Three winters green’, ‘Embers’ and ‘Unprecendented’.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Decent, Campion
  
• Subject
  Decent, Campion--Interviews.
  Dramatists, Australian--Interviews.
  Gay liberation movement--Australia.
  Gay theater--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Gay community--Australia.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20475423

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