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Issue Details: First known date: 1933... 1933 Monday Morning
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Set in a sheriff's office in Sydney in 1828, the play deals with an execution for highway robbery.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Monday Morning George Landen Dann , 1933 9502320 1933 single work radio play historical fiction

Radio adaptation of the one-act play.

Production Details

  • First produced as part of a collection of one-act plays (including Heritage, by Susan Gerard, and Wurzel Flummery, by A.A. Milne) by the Adelaide Repertory Theatre at the Australia, Angas street, Adelaide, on Wednesday 25 July 1934.

    Producer: Robert Matthews.

    Cast: Harold Nicholson (the sheriff), John Mullins (the Rev. Father Daniel Power), Anthony Young (Dr. Lang, D.D.), Phyllis Wasleys (an hysterical woman), and Colin Pelham (a warder).

    Setting: the sheriff's room in a Sydney gaol.

    Source:

    'Well-acted Short Plays at Repertory', News, 26 July 1934, p.13.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1933 .
      Extent: 18 leavesp.
      Description: Typescript with holograph emendations.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Series: The Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts series - publisher

      A collection in the Fryer Library at The University of Queensland of manuscript film and play scripts.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Location: Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts
      Local Id: H0395A
Last amended 22 Apr 2016 13:37:43
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  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1828
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