Popular Front : A Play | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories

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y Popular Front : A Play single work drama - Thirty six scenes in two parts

Author:agent Errol O'Neill

Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Popular Front : A Play

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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Popular Front is about two decades of Queensland’s political history (1930-1950), including the story of Fred Paterson, the first and only member of the Communist Party to be elected to a parliament in Australia.' (Production summary)

Production Details

First produced by the Brisbane Repertory Theatre, La Boite Theatre, Brisbane, 2 April 1986. Director: Therese Collie.
The second production wasdirected by Rob Meldrum for Theatre Works, Melbourne, February, 1987.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

1986 .

Extent: [1], 86leavesp.
Description: Typescript (duplicated).
(Manuscript) assertion

Note/s:

Typescript (duplicated)

Annotated.

Holdings

Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library

Local Id: H1898A
1986 .

Extent: 104 leavesp.
(Manuscript) assertion

Note/s:

Typescript (photocopy)

Title page missing. Annotations. Play identified by reference to other copies. Paper in poor condition; text incomplete; typescript faded.

Holdings

Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
Publisher: Playlab

Brisbane, Queensland,: Playlab , 1988 .

Extent: 129p.
Description: illus., port.

Note/s:

Foreword by Patsy McCarthy: 'The political playwrights of the 1980s such as Stephen Sewell, Caryl Churchill and Errol O'Neill have shown us that the conventions of the theatre know no boundaries, especially those of 'time' and 'place'....It is the unique ethos of our own time and place in history that Errol O'Neill has explored for Queensland and Australian audiences.'

Introduction by Errol O'neill, Brisbane, March, 1988.

ISBN: 0908156324

Series: Playlab Press Publication Playlab (publisher), series - publisher
Publisher: Playlab

Fortitude Valley, Fortitude Valley - New Farm area, Brisbane - North East, Brisbane, Queensland,: Playlab , 2021 .

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Extent: 1vp.
ISBN: 9781922424181

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Untitled Allan Gardiner , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 26 1995; (p. 204-210)
— Review of On the Whipping Side : A Story of the 1891 Queensland Shearers' Strike Errol O'Neill , 1991 single work drama ; Popular Front : A Play Errol O'Neill , 1986 single work drama