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Office Interlude : A Play in One Act single work   drama   - One act
Issue Details: First known date: 1944... 1944 Office Interlude : A Play in One Act
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'The scene is laid in the tea-room of any large office at tea time. The characters are the office girls, and the dialogue, a discussion of the girls' bosses and the latest gossip.'

Source: '"Office Interlude" A Hit', Daily News, 6 Apr. 1940, p. 6.

Production Details

  • First performed by the Chelsea Dramatic Group, Sydney, 31 January 1940. Also at the Brisbane Arts Theatre, November 1940 and the Sydney New Theatre January 1944.

    Producer: Vic Hardgraves

    Director: Kathleen Carroll.

    Cast: 

    Mrs. D. Sheil (as Mrs. Murphy, the tea woman)

    Miss Valerie Marning (as Peggy Sellen, the office girl)

    Miss Gladys Truman (as Rita Spencer, Mr. Greenway's secretary)

    Miss Billie Mackaway (as Joan Harley, Mr. Stone's secretary)

    Miss Jean Davidson (as Amy Murdoch, Book-keeper)

    Miss Betty Cowley (as Elsa Bennet, Mr. Brennan's secretary)

    Miss Millie Howe (as Nancy Williams, Telephonist)

    Miss Norma Fitzpatrick (as Pauline Fulton, Mr. Gilpies' Secretary)

    Source: 'Dramatic Society', Wellington Times, 2 Nov. 1944, p. 3

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Six Australian One-Act Plays Sydney : Mulga Publications , 1944 Z32296 1944 anthology drama Sydney : Mulga Publications , 1944 pg. 21-39
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Works about this Work

Purse Strings and Apron Strings : Women's Economic Agency Susan Pfisterer , Carolyn Pickett , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999; (p. 95-127)
"Office Interlude" A Hit 1940 single work column
— Appears in: Daily News , 6 April 1940; (p. 6)
— Review of Office Interlude : A Play in One Act Kathleen Carroll , 1944 single work drama
"Office Interlude" A Hit 1940 single work column
— Appears in: Daily News , 6 April 1940; (p. 6)
— Review of Office Interlude : A Play in One Act Kathleen Carroll , 1944 single work drama
Purse Strings and Apron Strings : Women's Economic Agency Susan Pfisterer , Carolyn Pickett , 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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