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y separately published work icon Stanley's Pipe Dream single work   drama   sketch (theatrical)   satire   - One act.
Alternative title: Stanley Baldwin's Pipe Dream
Issue Details: First known date: 1927... 1927 Stanley's Pipe Dream
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'Entitled Stanley's Pipe Dream ('A Workers' Play), it was set during an imaginary cabinet meeting in Stanley Baldwin's 'smoking-room' at 10 Downing Street, and featured the chief anti-communist militants Sir William Joynson-Hicks ('Jix'), Winston Churchill and Lord Birkenhead. The play was a mixture of traditional vaudeville and Russian agitprop,...' (Munro Wild Man, p52).

Notes

  • According to Craig Munro, although Stephensen wrote the sketch under the name Peter Stephens, the British secret service (possibly through an informer like Tom Driberg) knew he'd written the play and planned to bring him, the Workers Theatre Movement and other communist activities to the attention of the Rhodes Trust because of his promise to refrain from such activities while at Oxford.' (Wild Man, p52).

Production Details

  • 1927 : Progressive Club, North Camberwell (England) ; ca. March.

        • The Sunday Worker (England) reported on the performance of the play in its 13 and 20 March editions.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1927
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      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
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Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Wild Man of Letters : The Story of P. R. Stephensen Craig Munro , Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1984 Z444155 1984 single work biography Admired by D. H. Lawrence and denounced as a traitor during World War II, 'Inky' Stephensen was one of Australia's most remarkable men of letters. His stormy life paralleled the major artistic and political upheavals of the twentieth century. (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
P.R. Stephensen and the Early Workers' Theatre Movement in London Craig Munro , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April vol. 1 no. 2 1983; (p. 124-137)
P.R. Stephensen and the Early Workers' Theatre Movement in London Craig Munro , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April vol. 1 no. 2 1983; (p. 124-137)
y separately published work icon Wild Man of Letters : The Story of P. R. Stephensen Craig Munro , Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1984 Z444155 1984 single work biography Admired by D. H. Lawrence and denounced as a traitor during World War II, 'Inky' Stephensen was one of Australia's most remarkable men of letters. His stormy life paralleled the major artistic and political upheavals of the twentieth century. (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
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