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Douglas Stewart

DOUGLAS STEWART

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Douglas Stewart's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Douglas Stewart's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Fire On the Snow         Fisher's Ghost: An Historical Comedy         Ned Kelly         Shipwreck

Fire On the Snow

Synopsis:
a moving account of Captain Robert Scott's doomed 1911 expidition to the South Pole

Notes:
broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1941

1st Produced:
Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia    1996

Organisations:
State Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Historical Play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Fisher's Ghost: An Historical Comedy

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sydney    1961

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Wentworth Press, Sydney, 1960   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
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-

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Ned Kelly

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Shipwreck

Synopsis:
Stewart, best known as a poet, was also a masterful verse Dramatist. His 1951 play Shipwreck recreates the infamous mutiny that occurred after the Dutch ship Batavia foundered off the northwest Australian coast in 1629. It is a complex and literary play which depicts with sympathy the anarchic mutineers Cornelius, Huyssen and Seevanck

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1951

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Australian Plays of the 50's, ed Katherine Brisbane, Currency Press,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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