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y separately published work icon Prosperity Around the Corner extract   drama   - One act
Issue Details: First known date: 1938... 1938 Prosperity Around the Corner
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Henderson has lost his job at the company he has worked at for thirty years. He confronts his boss, Martin Boyd, who is sympathetic but doesn't understand the reality of unemployment for his workers. 

Notes

  • This play is Act 1 Scene 3, of a three-act play entitled 'Are You Ready, Comrade?' which was lost during the 1950s.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Communist Review vol. 5 no. 4 April 1938 Z650596 1938 periodical issue 1938 pg. 45-49
      ca. 1938 .
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: National Library of Australia
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australasian Drama Studies ADS no. 8 April 1986 Z618162 1986 periodical issue 1986 pg. 69-74
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Related Works

Are You Ready, Comrade? Betty Roland , 1938 single work drama

A dramatisation of "the political awakening of a guilt stricken bourgeois woman, married to a wealthy capitalist engineer, who has a Communist brother who oversees her enlightenment, and wins her love." 

Source: Nicole Moore, "The Burdens Twain or Not Forgetting Yourself: The Writing of Betty Roland's Life," Hecate 18, no. 1 (1992): 6. 
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