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Issue Details: First known date: 1945... 1945 Sons of the Morning : A Verse Play in Three Acts
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Notes

  • Set in Crete during the the German invasion of Greece in 1941. Verse drama written for radio in 1943 and adapted for the stage in 1945 with a different ending more appropriate to the outcome of the war.

Production Details

  • First produced by the New Theatre, Melbourne, 21 April 1945 under the direction of Hilda Esson. In the same year it was also produced by the Brisbane Repertory Theatre and the Sydney New Theatre.

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      1945 .
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Location: The Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts
      Local Id: H0470
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— Appears in: Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999; (p. 162-193) The New Theatre : The People, Plays and Politics behind Australia's Radical Theatre 2022;
John Hickling, Radio Drama Pioneer Jill Bull , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 11 1987; (p. 79-88)
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)
Drama Chronicle Leslie Rees , 1945 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Papers , Winter vol. 4 no. 2 1945; (p. 103-104)
Sundry Shows 1945 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 9 May vol. 66 no. 3404 1945; (p. 2)
— Review of Sons of the Morning : A Verse Play in Three Acts Catherine Duncan , 1945 single work drama
Sundry Shows 1945 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 27 June vol. 66 no. 3411 1945; (p. 2)
— Review of Sons of the Morning : A Verse Play in Three Acts Catherine Duncan , 1945 single work drama
Sundry Shows 1945 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 9 May vol. 66 no. 3404 1945; (p. 2)
— Review of Sons of the Morning : A Verse Play in Three Acts Catherine Duncan , 1945 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)
Drama Chronicle Leslie Rees , 1945 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Papers , Winter vol. 4 no. 2 1945; (p. 103-104)
Brave Red Witches : Communist Women, Identity and the New Theatre Susan Pfisterer , Carolyn Pickett , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999; (p. 162-193) The New Theatre : The People, Plays and Politics behind Australia's Radical Theatre 2022;
John Hickling, Radio Drama Pioneer Jill Bull , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 11 1987; (p. 79-88)
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Subjects:
  • c
    Greece,
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • Crete,
    c
    Greece,
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
Settings:
  • Crete,
    c
    Greece,
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1940s
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