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Issue Details: First known date: 1961... 1961 Reunion Day : A Play for Television
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  • Television play.

Production Details

  • Given a live reading at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, 4 July 2021: the first public performance of the work in Australia.

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First known date: 1961
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    y separately published work icon JASAL Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature no. 9 2009 Z1605882 2009 periodical issue 2009
    Note:

    This is the script for a play written by Peter Yeldham in 1961 and televised on the BBC in 1962. Although it is about an Anzac Day in Sydney, it was never shown on Australian television.

    Includes forward pp.1-2.
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Works about this Work

Forgotten Australian TV Plays : Reunion Day Stephen Vagg , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: FilmInk , 23 May 2021;
Peter Yeldham's Reunion Day : An Anzac Day Play on British Television Susan Lever , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 9 2009; 'Though a few naturalist plays from the 1950s and 1960s are acknowledged in Australian drama history, the plays written for television by Australians who went to Britain and America have disappeared from consideration. This article discusses one of them, Peter Yeldham's Reunion Day as an example of the naturalism current in British television in the early 1960s. It discusses the play's deliberate restraint and depiction of 'ordinary' people. It also places the play in the context of other Australian plays that use Anzac Day or the veteran's reunion as subject matter. A copy of the screenplay is appended.'
Peter Yeldham's Reunion Day : An Anzac Day Play on British Television Susan Lever , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 9 2009; 'Though a few naturalist plays from the 1950s and 1960s are acknowledged in Australian drama history, the plays written for television by Australians who went to Britain and America have disappeared from consideration. This article discusses one of them, Peter Yeldham's Reunion Day as an example of the naturalism current in British television in the early 1960s. It discusses the play's deliberate restraint and depiction of 'ordinary' people. It also places the play in the context of other Australian plays that use Anzac Day or the veteran's reunion as subject matter. A copy of the screenplay is appended.'
Forgotten Australian TV Plays : Reunion Day Stephen Vagg , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: FilmInk , 23 May 2021;
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