Download or read book Inside the Island ; The Precious Woman written by Louis Nowra and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first play a matriarchal imitation of English society is destroyed by an outbreak of 'holy fire' madness from a wheat fungus in Western NSW (9 men, 4 women). In the second, the child-like Su-ling in China in the 1920s, learns there is no place for compassion in the execution of social change (10 men, 4 women). Music by Sarah de Jong.