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'This collection includes: The Well (1960) by Jack McKinney, a rustic comedy in the Steele Rudd tradition set in Queensland; Burst of Summer (1960) by Oriel Gray is a realist play dealing with racial prejudice and is based on the brief success of the Aboriginal actress Ngarla Kunoth, who played Jedda in the Chauvel film; The Season at Sarsaparilla (1962), Patrick White's poetic satire examining the inevitable cycle of birth, copulation and death; White called it a 'charade of suburbia'; and The Promised Woman by Theodore Patrikareas which had its first stage production in Sydney in 1963 and is possibly the first play by a post-war immigrant staged in Australia. The play portrays migrants adapting to their new country and finding new identities and was adapted for the screen in 1974. (1 act, 2 women)' (Publication summary)
Contents
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Burst of Summer,
single work
drama
radio play
Conflict erupts when white townsfolk decide to build houses and move the Indigenous residents of the 'The Flats' into them.
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The Well,
single work
drama
A country comedy that testifies to the impending end of the cultural isolation of rural life.
- The Season at Sarsaparilla : A Charade of Suburbia in Two Acts, single work drama
- The Promised Woman, single work drama