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PATRICK WHITE (1912 - 1990)
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born May 28, 1912, London; died 30 Sep 1990 Sydney. Australian novelist, short story writer, and playwright, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. White's international breakthrough novel was VOSS (1957), a symbolic story of a doomed journey into the Australian desert. RIDERS IN THE CHARIOT (1961) was set in the imaginary Sydney suburban town, Sarsaparilla, White's Yoknapatawpha. These works established him as one of the most important modern writers. In his own country White had to wait a long time before his unadorning picture of the Australian middle class was accepted.
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Big Toys Bread and Butter Women Cheery Soul, A Ham Funeral, The Netherwood Night on Bald Mountain Return To Abyssinia School For Friends, The Season At Sarsaparilla, The Shepherd On the Rocks Signal Driver: A Morality Play For the TimesBig Toys
mannered rituals are a cover for social and political exploitation and personal corruption
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1st Produced:
Parade Theatre, Sydney 27 Jul 1977
Organisations:
Old Tote Theatre Company
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1978 0-86819-019-5
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Play/Drama
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Top of PageBread and Butter Women
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1st Produced:
Bryant's Playhouse, Sydney 1935
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Top of PageCheery Soul, A
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from own story
1st Produced:
Union Theatre Repertory Company, Melbourne 19 Nov 1963
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A Cheery Soul - A Long Story. (The London Magazine. Volume 2, No 6, September 1962)
in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985 0-86819-124-8
in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985 0-86819-124-8
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Adaptation
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Male: 10 Female: 18 Other: -
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Top of PageHam Funeral, The
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deals with the inability of a sensitive and self-conscious Young man with aspirations as a poet to engage meaningfully with life.
- Belonging, John McCallum
- Belonging, John McCallum
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originally written 1947
1st Produced:
Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Adelaide, Australia 15 Nov 1961
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in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985 -
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Tragical farce Tragedy
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Male: 6 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageNetherwood
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1st Produced:
Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia 11 Jun 1983
Organisations:
Lighthouse, State Theatre Company of South Australia
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 978-0868190716
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One Act
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Male: 6 Female: 6 Other: -
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Top of PageNight on Bald Mountain
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1st Produced:
Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Adelaide, Australia 09 Mar 1964
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1st Published:
in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985 0-86819-124-8
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Top of PageReturn To Abyssinia
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scheduled for production in London in 1939 but the War intervened.
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London 1947
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Top of PageSchool For Friends, The
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1st Produced:
Bryant's Playhouse, Sydney 1937
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Top of PageSeason At Sarsaparilla, The
offers a eulogy to what in the 1950s had been damned as the greatest obstacle to an Australian culture - the inarticulate Australian voice.
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1st Produced:
Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Adelaide, Australia 14 Sep 1962
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1st Published:
in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985 0-86819-124-8
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Genre:
Charade Of Suburbia
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Male: 9 Female: 7 Other: -
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Top of PageShepherd On the Rocks
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1st Produced:
Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia 09 May 1987
Organisations:
State Theatre Company of South Australia
1st Published:
in Collected plays vol 2, Currency Press, Sydney, 1987 978-0868193052
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Genre:
One Act
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Male: 8 Female: 6 Other: -
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Top of PageSignal Driver: A Morality Play For the Times
Synopsis:
A wry allegory of Australia and how it missed the boat
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1st Produced:
Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia 05 Mar 1982
Organisations:
Lighthouse Company
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 978-0868190686
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