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y separately published work icon Morning Sacrifice single work   drama   - Three acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1940... 1940 Morning Sacrifice
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'Set in the staff room of an all-girl school, 'Morning Sacrifice' interrogates the stifling sexual morality of post-War Australia. The all female cast are divided by the conflict between a waning Victorian sensibility and the sexual freedom of the coming age.

'The play is a powerful critique of how women’s sexuality was controlled by law, and hostility between women formed a barrier to emancipation.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)

Production Details

  • First produced by the Western Australian Drama Festivals (Inc) at the Repertory Theatre, Perth, 8 October 1942.

    Producer: Joyce Mortlock.

    Also produced at the Stables Theatre, Sydney, 1986 and at the 3rd International Women Playwrights Conference, Adelaide, July 1994.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Minor title variations appear in texts
      1940-1943 .
      Extent: 44 leavesp.
      Description: Typescript (photocopy)with ms. stage directions.
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H0364
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Three Australian Three-Act Plays Dymphna Cusack , Sydney : Australasian Publishing Co. , 1950 Z791826 1950 selected work drama Sydney : Australasian Publishing Co. , 1950 pg. 179-259
    • Paddington, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press ; Griffin Theatre Company , 1986 .
      Alternative title: Morning Sacrifice : A Play in Three Acts
      Extent: 84p.
      Description: illus., ports.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: To my good friends, Rene and Sid Laws, in love and gratitude.
      • Current Theatre series.
      ISBN: 0868191485
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 Susan Pfisterer (editor), Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 1999 Z68976 1999 anthology drama Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 1999 pg. 29-108
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2019 .
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      Note/s:
      • Published 30th October 2019.
      ISBN: 9781760623227

Works about this Work

Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 : Introduction Susan Pfisterer , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 1999; (p. v-xxvi)
Against the Grain : Dramatic Challenges to Modernity Susan Pfisterer , Carolyn Pickett , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999; (p. 64-94)
The Queen of Australian Soap: Deconstructing Dymphna Cusack Tania Peitzker , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , Winter vol. 59 no. 2 1999; (p. 129-155)
Dymphna Cusack's Plays Helen Thomson , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 32 1998; (p. 63-76)
Untitled Anne Edgeworth , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Muse , September no. 134 1994; (p. 34-35)

— Review of Morning Sacrifice Dymphna Cusack , 1940 single work drama
From Staff-Room to Canteen Miriam Godfrey , 1951 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 12 no. 2 1951; (p. 101-102)

— Review of Three Australian Three-Act Plays Dymphna Cusack , 1950 selected work drama ; Comets Soon Pass Dymphna Cusack , 1950 single work drama ; Shoulder the Sky Dymphna Cusack , 1945 single work drama ; Morning Sacrifice Dymphna Cusack , 1940 single work drama
Over the Bridge 1943 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 December vol. 64 no. 3333 1943; (p. 2)

— Review of Morning Sacrifice Dymphna Cusack , 1940 single work drama
Untitled H. G. Kippax , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 June 1986; (p. 18)

— Review of Morning Sacrifice Dymphna Cusack , 1940 single work drama
Untitled Andrew L. Urban , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 5 June 1986; (p. 14)

— Review of Morning Sacrifice Dymphna Cusack , 1940 single work drama
Moral Dilemma at the Girls School 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News , 23 August vol. 57 no. 47 1991; (p. 39)

— Review of Morning Sacrifice Dymphna Cusack , 1940 single work drama
Recent Australian Drama in Print Allan Ashbolt , 1946 single work criticism
— Appears in: Focus , December-January vol. 1 no. 11 1946-1947; (p. 31-33)
Dymphna Cusack's Plays Helen Thomson , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 32 1998; (p. 63-76)
The Queen of Australian Soap: Deconstructing Dymphna Cusack Tania Peitzker , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , Winter vol. 59 no. 2 1999; (p. 129-155)
Making a Sacrifice Louise Nunn , 1994 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 25 June 1994; (p. 19-20)
Dymphna Cusack's `Comets Soon Pass': The Genius and the Potato Wife Frances De Groen , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Wallflowers and Witches : Women and Culture in Australia 1910-1945 1994; (p. 91-104)
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