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- Great Inheritance, single work radio play (p. 239-258)
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Spoiled Darlings,
single work
radio play
humour
romance
Described in contemporary radio guides as 'a romantic comedy of other days.'
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The Drovers : A Play in One Act,
single work
drama
"Life in the bush is hot, hard and not for the faint-hearted. Under the extreme sun of Northern frontier country a pack of itinerant drovers thrive in the land they call home. A freak stampede brings ‘Briglow’ Bill and his mates face to face with mortality and their masculinity and mateship are tested. All the while, Pidgeon, a young Aboriginal boy, watches the white fellows. He sees something the drovers cannot speak of and, for Briglow, this silence is as stifling yet as familiar and as comforting as the heat that surrounds them all.
The Drovers is a bush drama that is rich with tension, grim stoicism and heightened masculinity of the, notably, all-male characters. Clipped sentences and straight-talking speak of the no-nonsense attitude necessary to survive in the remote bush of the 1920s. The play draws us to the campfire where, in light and heat, we see the relationships the drovers experience: between each other, between white man and Aboriginal man, between man and land and, finally, the ultimate and unavoidable relationship: a man’s connection with life and death."
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille.
Works about this Work
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Short Views
1953
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 14 no. 1 1953; (p. 49-59)
— Review of Modern Short Plays 1951 anthology drama
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Short Views
1953
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 14 no. 1 1953; (p. 49-59)
— Review of Modern Short Plays 1951 anthology drama