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Notes
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Although initially titled The Bastard County, and published under that title in 1963, the play was first brought before the public as Fire on the Wind in late 1959.
Production Details
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1959: Playhouse Theatre, Sydney (6-14 Nov.). Produced by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. Director Robin Lovejoy.- Cast. Frank Waters, Neva Carr-Glynn, Grant Taylor, Patricia Conolly.
1959: Union Theatre, University of Adelaide Theatre Guild (ca. Nov/Dec.). Cast and production mostly as for previous Sydney season.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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What's a Man to Do? Images of Rural Australian Masculinities in Three Plays of the 1950s : Reedy River, The Bastard Country and Lola Montez
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 46 2005; (p. 38-57) The article examines the features of masculinity as they appear in three plays from the 1950s set in rural Australia - an environment conventionally regarded as a place of authenticy for men - and discusses the uses to which these depictions of masculinity are put. The aims of the article are in part dramaturgical: 'to think about the relationship between the scripts of the plays and the time in which they were first performed, and to ask questions about how these plays worked in relation to changing possibilities for the performance of gender' (38). -
Modern Australian Drama : An Outsider's View
1961
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , Autumn vol. 5 no. 2 1961; (p. 67-74) -
Untitled
1959
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 May 1959;
— Review of Fire on the Wind 1959 single work drama -
Untitled
1959
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Quarterly , September vol. 31 no. 3 1959; (p. 118-120)
— Review of Fire on the Wind 1959 single work drama
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Untitled
1959
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Quarterly , September vol. 31 no. 3 1959; (p. 118-120)
— Review of Fire on the Wind 1959 single work drama -
Untitled
1959
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 May 1959;
— Review of Fire on the Wind 1959 single work drama -
What's a Man to Do? Images of Rural Australian Masculinities in Three Plays of the 1950s : Reedy River, The Bastard Country and Lola Montez
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 46 2005; (p. 38-57) The article examines the features of masculinity as they appear in three plays from the 1950s set in rural Australia - an environment conventionally regarded as a place of authenticy for men - and discusses the uses to which these depictions of masculinity are put. The aims of the article are in part dramaturgical: 'to think about the relationship between the scripts of the plays and the time in which they were first performed, and to ask questions about how these plays worked in relation to changing possibilities for the performance of gender' (38). -
Modern Australian Drama : An Outsider's View
1961
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , Autumn vol. 5 no. 2 1961; (p. 67-74)
Awards
- 1959 recipient Elizabethan Theatre Trust
Last amended 31 Jan 2017 15:43:21
Subjects:
- Bush,
- Victoria,
Settings:
- 1950s
- 1960s
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