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Adaptation of
A Sirius Cove
1935
single work
drama
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1938...
1938
A Sirius Cove
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'In A Sirius Cove, Lionel Shave satirises In a frolicsome way contemporary Bellevue Hill society. The comedy also pokes fun at those who attempt to deny the early Australian convict background' (Leslie Rees. 'We Shall Have Drama', p. 6).
The play is a. comedy of social life in the setting of a Bellevue Hill (Sydney) mansion, and involves a contest between a mother's ambitions and a daughter's desires. In the end a first fleet ancestor plays a useful part in the daughter's behalf ('Three Dramatic Sessions.' Daily Examiner, Grafton, 7 May 1938, p. 8).
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First produced as a stage play in Sydney in 1935, the radio adaptation was included in the Australian Broadcasting Commission's 1938 Radio Drama Week [1938]. It was broadcast from Melbourne on 10 May along with Walter Brooksbank's Boiled or Fried.
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Producer: John Cairns.
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