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y separately published work icon The Well single work   drama   - Three acts
Alternative title: The Well : A Universal Folk Tale in An Australian Idiom; Truth Lies at the Bottom of the Well
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Well
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First known date: 1960
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      Alternative title: Truth Lies at the Bottom of the Well
      Extent: 77 leavesp.
      Description: Typescript.
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Location: The Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts
      Local Id: H1082
      1950-1959 .
      Extent: [45] leavesp.
      Description: Typescript.
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Location: The Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts
      Local Id: H1082A
      1950-1959 .
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: National Library of Australia
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Theatregoer vol. 2 no. 6-7 1962 Z915300 1962 periodical issue 1962 pg. 13-35
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Khaki, Bush and Bigotry : Three Australian Plays Three Australian Plays J. P. McKinney , Ray Mathew , Sumner Locke Elliott , Eunice Hanger (editor), Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1968 Z276465 1968 selected work drama St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1968 pg. 203-274
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Plays of the 60s : Volume 1 Katharine Brisbane (editor), Sydney : Currency Press , 1998 Z1174230 1998 anthology drama (taught in 2 units)

    'This collection includes: The Well (1960) by Jack McKinney, a rustic comedy in the Steele Rudd tradition set in Queensland; Burst of Summer (1960) by Oriel Gray is a realist play dealing with racial prejudice and is based on the brief success of the Aboriginal actress Ngarla Kunoth, who played Jedda in the Chauvel film; The Season at Sarsaparilla (1962), Patrick White's poetic satire examining the inevitable cycle of birth, copulation and death; White called it a 'charade of suburbia'; and The Promised Woman by Theodore Patrikareas which had its first stage production in Sydney in 1963 and is possibly the first play by a post-war immigrant staged in Australia. The play portrays migrants adapting to their new country and finding new identities and was adapted for the screen in 1974. (1 act, 2 women)' (Publication summary)

         Sydney : Currency Press , 1998
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