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Issue Details: First known date: 1956... 1956 The Day Before Tomorrow : A Play
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon The Day Before Tomorrow Ric Throssell , Melbourne : ABC Radio , 1956 11259584 1956 single work radio play

A radio adaptation of Ric Throssell's stage play, which had been produced in Canberra to much acclaim in April 1956. The radio version was not as well received, but was re-broadcast as a matinee on 1 March 1959. Not further broadcasts have been traced.

Production Details

    • First produced by the Canberra Repertory Society in association with the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust at the Riverside Theatre, Canberra, on 5 April 1956, and then by the Victorian Drama League, for the Australian Olympic Drama Festival, Melbourne, 1956.
    • Presented at the Edinburgh Festival by the London Playgoers' Club in August/September 1960.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1956
      ca. 1956 .
      Alternative title: The Day Before Tomorrow : A Drama in Three Acts
      Extent: 93 leavesp.
      Description: Typescript.
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H1745
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Plays of the 50s [Volume One] Katharine Brisbane (editor), Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2007 Z1372257 2007 anthology drama Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2007
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Works about this Work

[Review of The Day Before Tomorrow] Peter Wilkins , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 April 1996;
— Review of The Day Before Tomorrow : A Play Ric Throssell , 1956 single work drama
Untitled Phillip MacKenzie , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Muse , May no. 151 1996; (p. 30-31)
— Review of The Day Before Tomorrow : A Play Ric Throssell , 1956 single work drama
Writers of Conscience Hope Hewitt , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 October 1969; (p. 17)
— Review of The Day Before Tomorrow : A Play Ric Throssell , 1956 single work drama ; The Half-Burnt Tree Dymphna Cusack , 1969 single work novel
Untitled Cherry Grimm , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 September 1969; (p. 16)
— Review of The Day Before Tomorrow : A Play Ric Throssell , 1956 single work drama
Ten Years Late Rex Cramphorn , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 1 November vol. 91 no. 4677 1969; (p. 60-61)
— Review of Burke's Company Bill Reed , 1968 single work drama ; And the Big Men Fly Alan Hopgood , 1963 single work drama ; The Day Before Tomorrow : A Play Ric Throssell , 1956 single work drama
Ten Years Late Rex Cramphorn , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 1 November vol. 91 no. 4677 1969; (p. 60-61)
— Review of Burke's Company Bill Reed , 1968 single work drama ; And the Big Men Fly Alan Hopgood , 1963 single work drama ; The Day Before Tomorrow : A Play Ric Throssell , 1956 single work drama
Sundry Shows F. M. T. , 1956 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 18 April vol. 77 no. 3975 1956; (p. 19)
— Review of The Day Before Tomorrow : A Play Ric Throssell , 1956 single work drama
Untitled Cherry Grimm , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 September 1969; (p. 16)
— Review of The Day Before Tomorrow : A Play Ric Throssell , 1956 single work drama
Writers of Conscience Hope Hewitt , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 October 1969; (p. 17)
— Review of The Day Before Tomorrow : A Play Ric Throssell , 1956 single work drama ; The Half-Burnt Tree Dymphna Cusack , 1969 single work novel
Untitled Phillip MacKenzie , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Muse , May no. 151 1996; (p. 30-31)
— Review of The Day Before Tomorrow : A Play Ric Throssell , 1956 single work drama
Background to a Play Ric Throssell , 1956 single work column
— Appears in: Westerly , no. 2 1956; (p. 38-39)
New Elements in Australian Drama Jeana Tweedie , 1956 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , no. 2 1956; (p. 40-43)
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