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AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'This play has three scenes--morning, afternoon and night. All scenes are depicted in the living room of Mrs. Hennessey's "residential."
The wireless is tuned in to the "running commentaries" from the racecourse, sporting papers are strewn over the sofa, and the telephone is handy for anyone to ring the S.P. shop.
All the people are the house are in some way interested in the races ... The play is built around the sort of Saturday that thousands of Australians live every week-end.'
Source: 'S.P. Betting Staged', The Daily News, 19 Sep. 1940, p. 2.
Production Details
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Performed by the Repertory Society.
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Characters: Mrs. Hennessey, Alf (Mrs. Hennessey's brother), Bert Jones, and Dolly (Bert Jones' girlfriend)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Purse Strings and Apron Strings : Women's Economic Agency
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999; (p. 95-127)
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Purse Strings and Apron Strings : Women's Economic Agency
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999; (p. 95-127)
Awards
- 1940 Winner Westralian Drama Festival Award
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