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Issue Details: First known date: 1925... 1925 Kangaroo Flat
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Described in advertising prior to its 1926 Melbourne debut as 'full of comedy from the first scene, which depicts the pioneer's golden wedding, Kangaroo Flat interprets as well as describes Australian country life. The narrative centres on the romance of the pioneer's daughter and a young drover…' (Age 9 January 1926, p.22). The Age reviewer goes on to further record:

Bob [Ashley] is married to Nell, the sweet young daughter of Dad and Mum, but he is blackmailed by the adventuress [Estelle] because he wished to keep the crime of his brother a secret. Redmond Carson [the squatter] takes Nell to witness one of her husband's meetings with the city lady and Nell runs away heartbroken to the city, where the adventuress, apart from her enormous capacity for collecting money, does not seem such a bad sort, puts her people in the way of finding, while Carson is hurried off to gaol in the approved fashion. The story is, however, but a peg to hang a great deal of comedy, and there's much more laughter than tears (11 January 1926, p.10).

Production Details

  • 1925: Lytton tour Queensland and New South Wales tour; ca. June-November

    • Producer/Director Philip Lytton.
    • Troupe: Philip Lytton's Dramatic Co
    • Cast incl. Tal Ordell (Jimmy Cork), C. R. Stanford (Dad Manson), Nell Rhyder (Dolly), Paul Longuet, Victor Fitzherbert, Peter Savieri, Ida Gresham, Ethel Page, Robert Purdie, Norman Carter, Lola Remona, Frank Curtain, Marcia Rogers, George Parks, Love Ordell.
    • The first known production was at Lytton's Theatre, Rockhampton on 20 June 1925.

    1926: Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne; 9 January - 4 March

    • Producer E. J. Carroll; Director Tal Ordell; Assistant Director C. R. Stanford; Scenic Art F. Adamson.
    • Cast incl. Tal Ordell (Jimmy Cork), C. R. Stanford (Dad Manson), Ida Gresham (Mrs Manson), Maggie Jervis (Nell Manson), Marcia Rogers (Dolly Doone, Dad's granddaughter), Rawdon Blandford (Bob Ashley, the young drover), Norman Carter (Hon. Lane-Piggott, the jackaroo dude), Jenny Johnson (Mrs Brown), Leslie Gordon (Joe Morgan), Carl Lawson (Redmond Carson, the squatter villain), Hilda Dorrington (Estelle Newbury, the adventuress), Edward Landon (Professor Bopp, the cow doctor).

    1926: Palace Theatre, Sydney; 6 March -

    • Producer E. J. Carroll; Director Tal Ordell; Assistant Director C. R. Stanford; Scenic Art F. Adamson.
    • Cast incl. Tal Ordell (Jimmy Cork), C. R. Stanford (Dad Manson), Ida Gresham (Mrs Manson), Marica Rogers (Dolly Doone), Hilda Dorrington (Estelle Newbury, the adventuress), Jenny Johnson (Mrs Brown), Leslie Gordon (Joe Morgan), Carl Lawson (Redmond Carson, the squatter villain), Edward Landon (Professor Bopp, the cow doctor), Norman Carter (Hon. Lane-Piggott), Beryl Barraclough, J. Lennox, Evan Leslie, J. H. Rowe, R. Denton.

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First known date: 1925
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Works about this Work

'Kangaroo Flat' 1926 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 10 March 1926; (p. 24)
— Review of Kangaroo Flat Tal Ordell , 1925 single work drama
'Kangaroo Flat' : New Back-Block Play 1926 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 March no. 27510 1926; (p. 5)
— Review of Kangaroo Flat Tal Ordell , 1925 single work drama
An Australian Play : 'Kangaroo Flat' 1926 single work review
— Appears in: The Gippsland Times , 14 January 1926; (p. 4)
— Review of Kangaroo Flat Tal Ordell , 1925 single work drama
Dad and Mum at the Atheneum 1926 single work review
— Appears in: Table Talk , 14 January 1926; (p. 10)
— Review of Kangaroo Flat Tal Ordell , 1925 single work drama
An Australian Play : 'Kangaroo Flat' at the Atheneum Theatre 1926 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 January no. 22081 1926; (p. 10)
— Review of Kangaroo Flat Tal Ordell , 1925 single work drama
An Australian Play : 'Kangaroo Flat' at the Atheneum Theatre 1926 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 January no. 22081 1926; (p. 10)
— Review of Kangaroo Flat Tal Ordell , 1925 single work drama
Dad and Mum at the Atheneum 1926 single work review
— Appears in: Table Talk , 14 January 1926; (p. 10)
— Review of Kangaroo Flat Tal Ordell , 1925 single work drama
An Australian Play : 'Kangaroo Flat' 1926 single work review
— Appears in: The Gippsland Times , 14 January 1926; (p. 4)
— Review of Kangaroo Flat Tal Ordell , 1925 single work drama
'Kangaroo Flat' : New Back-Block Play 1926 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 March no. 27510 1926; (p. 5)
— Review of Kangaroo Flat Tal Ordell , 1925 single work drama
'Kangaroo Flat' 1926 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 10 March 1926; (p. 24)
— Review of Kangaroo Flat Tal Ordell , 1925 single work drama
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