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Kid Stakes / Other Times / Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Ray Lawler
OUT OF STOCK. ETA FOR REPRINT 2014.
First staged in 1955, no play has been more important to the history of Australian theatre than
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Twenty years later, Lawler returned to his lovable Carlton household and created two more plays:
Kid Stakes and
Other Times.
Kid Stakes
A joyful portrait of the summer of the first doll, in which a chance encounter brings Olive and Emma, Roo and Barney, into the shabby Carlton terrace to begin a seventeen year journey of seasonal love and argument.
Kid Stakes
introduces the fun-loving Nancy, who has left the scene by the seventeenth summer, adding a new poignancy to the story.
Other Times
The middle play of Ray Lawler's
Doll Trilogy.
Set during the Second World War, in late winter, when Barney and Roo are on leave from the army.
Other Times
is the fulcrum of the three plays in which the characters stop being kids and become adults. Middle age is looming and life is no longer just a game. Things are changed forever by Nancy's decision, setting the stage for
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Ray Lawler's revised script (2012) of his (and Australia's) most famous play, in which two larrikin canecutters and their women awaken to middle-age. The impact of
The
Doll
cannot be over-stated. Its success both here and abroad was quickly recognised as a defining moment in Australian theatre history.
Cast : Kid Stakes - 3M, 4F / Other Times - 3M, 4F / Summer of the Seventeenth Doll - 3M, 4F
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Sky Without Birds / Shipwreck / The Night of the Ding-Dong / The Day Before Tomorrow
Katharine Brisbane (ed)
Sky Without Birds
by Oriel Gray
A 3-act drama from 1950 dealing with isolation and prejudice against postwar immigrants set on a Nullarbor Plain railway siding. Written the year Gray left the Communist party,
Sky Without Birds is the first play she wrote rebutting party beliefs and giving primacy to individual morality. Nevertheless, Gray
retained her concern for the underprivileged.
Shipwreck by Douglas Stewart
Stewart, best known as a poet, was also a masterful verse dramatist.
Shipwreck, written in 1951, 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.
The Night of the Ding-Dong by Ralph Peterson
The second play from Ralph Peterson, dating from 1954, is a comedy set in Adelaide at the time of the Crimean War, a time when the locals feared a Russian invasion.
The Day Before Tomorrow by Ric Throssell
An anti-nuclear-war play from 1956 about a family of survivors following a nuclear war. Produced in Australian and also on the fringe of the Edinburgh Festival by the London Playgoers' Company.
Review
Erects a small cairn to the indestructibility of the human spirit. -
Scotsman
Cast : Sky Without Birds - 7M, 2F / Shipwreck - 10M, 5F / The Night of the Ding-Dong - 5M, 4F / The Day Before Tomorrow - 8M, 2F
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The Multi-Coloured Umbrella / The Slaughter of St Theresa's Day / Image in the Clay / Life of the Party
Katharine Brisbane (ed)
The exhilaration caused by the success in 1955 of Ray Lawler’s
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll galvanised a host of new Australian playwrights. This collection features a few of the best examples which sprang up after its' success.
Together these plays mark a journey towards a recognisably Australian rhythmic form and a more poetic, visceral drama characteristic of the theatre that was to come later in the century.
The Multi-Coloured Umbrella, by Barbara Vernon (1957)
The play was significant in the origins of Australian realist drama and was runner-up to Richard Beynon’s
The Shifting Heart in a play competition held by the Journalists’ Club in Sydney in 1956. It premiered in 1957 and was broadcast by ABC TV in January 1958.
The Slaughter of St Teresa’s Day
, by Peter Kenna (1959)
This comedy-drama from 1959 introduces the first of Kenna's Irish-Australian matriarchs, Oola Maguire.
Image in the Clay, by David Ireland (1960)
David Ireland blends realism and poetry in a stark portrait of a rural Aboriginal family. The play was first produced in Sydney in 1960.
The Life of the Party, by Ray Mathew (1960)
This play draws a desperate portrait of post-war urban sophisticates trapped in the shadow of the Cold War.
The Life of the Party was a finalist in the 1957 London Observer competition and had a short season in London.
Cast : The Multi-Coloured Umbrella - 3M, 3F / The Slaughter of St Theresa's Day - 4M, 6F / Image in the Clay - 10M, 2F / Life of the Party - 3M, 6F
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Ray Lawler
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll iPad app
Ray Lawler's revised script (2012) of his (and Australia's) most famous play, in which two larrikin canecutters and their women awaken to middle-age. The impact of
The
Doll cannot be over-stated. Its success both here and abroad was quickly recognised as a defining moment in Australian theatre history.
Awards
- 1955 Playwright's Advisory Board - Best Play
Cast : 3M, 4F
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