A joyful portrait of the summer of the first doll.

No play has been more important to the history of Australian theatre than Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Twenty years later, Ray Lawler returned to his lovable Carlton household and created two more plays: Kid Stakes, the story of the first doll, and Other Times, about the wartime winter which proved the turning point in the life of the characters.

The middle play of Ray Lawler's Doll trilogy, set during World War II in late winter, when Barney and Roo are on leave from the army.

Every summer Roo and Barney have come down from their work in the Queensland canefields to the Carlton house they share with Olive and Nancy for an annual celebration of love and laughter. But this year Nancy has deserted the house to get married, and Pearl has taken her place...