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All Publication Details
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Notes:Manuscript copies of the play are held in both the Campbell Howard Collection, University of New England and the Fryer Library, University of Queensland.
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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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