{{Short description|Play by Michael Gow}} {{italic title}} '''''Sweet Phoebe''''' is an Australian play script by Michael Gow. The 1994 world premiere production starring Cate Blanchett<ref>and Colin Moody. [http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/organisation/30 ''AusStage'', "Sydney Theatre Company"]; Retrieved 6 January 2015.</ref> was by Sydney Theatre Company under the artistic direction of Wayne Harrison. Other notable performances of the play include a 1995 stage production at the Croydon Warehouse also starring Cate Blanchett in her first stage performance in London.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cate Blanchett: Film was never a Mecca for me|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-features/9193899/Cate-Blanchett-Film-was-never-a-Mecca-for-me.html|publisher=Telegraph|accessdate=22 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Neville|first=Maggie|title=The Shagaround|year=2011|publisher=Oberon Books|isbn=978-1840022407|pages=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JgJaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Sweet+Phoebe%22+michael+gow}}</ref>
==Plot== When pet dog Phoebe goes missing, the impact on her minders is devastating. As Helen and Frazer desperately search the city streets, they encounter the unexpected, and are irrevocably changed.
==Reception== Critical reception for the script has been mixed to positive,<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: Sweet Phoebe|url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/1959/sweet-phoebe|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505115122/http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/1959/sweet-phoebe|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 5, 2013|publisher=The Stage|accessdate=22 December 2012}}</ref> with the Dallas Morning News panning it as "lifeless".<ref>{{cite news|last=Sime|first=Tom|title=Stage West goes astray with 'Sweet Phoebe' Skillful actors can't remedy lifeless Australian comedy|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED3DB850A2BEBB2&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|accessdate=22 December 2012|newspaper=Dallas Morning News|date=May 1, 1999}}</ref>
===Awards=== * 1995 NSW Premier's Literary Award - Play Award<ref>{{cite book|last=Cody|first=Gabrielle|title=The Columbia encyclopedia of modern drama: A-L|year=2007|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0231144223|pages=547|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qYfH1tOwsHcC&dq=%22Sweet+Phoebe%22+michael+gow&pg=PA547}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|2}}
Category:1994 plays Category:Plays by Michael Gow