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y separately published work icon The Hidden Valley single work   drama   - One act
Issue Details: First known date: 1935... 1935 The Hidden Valley
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'A young settler coming home with his bride to the little hut in a remote valley, where he had acquired land and stock by means that law would not sanction, is told by his straightlaced bride that he must give up his land or she will leave him. He decides that his land means more to him than a wife.'

Source: 'One-Act Plays', The Age, 4 Apr. 1936, p. 4.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon The Hidden Valley Joan Harvey , Brisbane : ABC Radio , 1939 16006503 1939 single work radio play

Adaptation of Harvey's 1935 one-act play of the same name.

Notes

  • Published posthumously.

Affiliation Notes

  • The 10 October 1936 issue of The Argus has a short review of The Hidden Valley.

  • The 27 March 1937 issue of The Age has a short review of The Hidden Valley about the themes of Australian identity, written by E.A.B.

Production Details

  • Placed highly in the Dramatists' Club Competition and read at The Little Theatre in South Yarra on 8 September 1935.

    Characters: Dave Shearer and Mary Shearer.

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Works about this Work

Australian Composers and Writers' Association, Melbourne [Meeting Report] Margaret Boyd , 1937 single work column
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 June vol. 9 no. 6 1937; (p. 91) Notes from the May meeting. Baker was congratulated on her OBE for service to Australian literature; a subscription drive was made for Palmer's work on Stephens; McLeod used excerpts from The Hidden Valley, The Emancipist, and Van Diemen's Land as illustrations of "well rendered" work. One of Cross' poems was recited.
Australian Composers and Writers' Association, Melbourne [Meeting Report] Margaret Boyd , 1937 single work column
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 June vol. 9 no. 6 1937; (p. 91) Notes from the May meeting. Baker was congratulated on her OBE for service to Australian literature; a subscription drive was made for Palmer's work on Stephens; McLeod used excerpts from The Hidden Valley, The Emancipist, and Van Diemen's Land as illustrations of "well rendered" work. One of Cross' poems was recited.
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