Campbell Howard Index - D

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89	Author	Dale, Marguerite
	Title	Secondary Considerations: A Realistic Play in Four Acts
	Date	1921
	Length	Four Acts
	Setting	The action of the play takes place within 48 hours from 5.30 p.m. on Thursday to 5.30 p.m. on Saturday.
	Characters	NELLIE JESSOP, a spinster aged 42 ESTER JESSOP, her sister aged 36 VICTOR JESSOP, their brother aged 40 VALENTINE JESSOP, their brother aged 28 SELINA McKELL, their friend EDITH JESSOP, Victor's wife MRS SMITH GLADYS SMITH, engaged to Valentine MR JAMES, a lawyer A BOY
	Subject(s)	Family Relations; Money; Social Status; Women's Issues
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection.

90	Author	Dann, George Landen
	Title	Caroline Chisholm: A Play (a.k.a. A Second Moses)
	Date	1939
	Length	Two Acts: Seven Scenes
	Setting	I.i The home of Mrs William Jones. Wooton, Northamptonshire, in 1830. I.ii Government House in Sydney. 1840. I.iii The Chisholms' home at Windsor, New South Wales. A month later. II.i "The Home" for Emigrants in Sydney. A month later. II.ii The same. Several months later. II.iii The same. Towards the end of 1845. II.iv The same. 11th April 1946.
	Characters	MRS JONES, Caroline's mother MAJOR DRAKER CAROLINE CHISHOLM LIEUTENANT (later Captain) ARCHIBALD CHISHOLM SUSAN, a maid SIR GEORGE GIPPS, Governor of New South Wales LADY GIPPS A SECRETARY TO SIR GEORGE GIPPS MISS HALVIN A GIRL REV. HENRY STYLES, Rector of Windsor McLACHLAN FLORA ANDERSON PETER, a ticket-of-leave man THOMAS O'CONNOR LADY O'CONNELL MISS E. CHAMBERS LADY DOWLING MRS ROGER SHERRY MRS W. MacKENZIE MR WILLIAM BRADLEY, M.L.A. THE SATISFIED LADY A GIRL MRS FAULKNER MARY JOHN BALDWIN THE GRAND LADY FIRST IRISH GIRL SECOND IRISH GIRL THIRD IRISH GIRL A LADY THREE MEN THE SINGER
	Cast	Clare Clark D. Kellett Cameron Daphne Roemermann Peter Buchanan Muriel Burton Robert E. Kelly Mary Gibson Graham Webster Jean Whitfield Joyce Armstong W. Williams Ludovick Gordon Betty Ross Jack Bow Mervyn Eadie Barbara Bancroft Lenore Francis Jean Jarrott Lorna Watt Joan Barry Ernest Busch Joy Howken Ruth Peapell Maibry Wragge Betty Brown Ley Outridge Mavis Busch Merle Dinning Beryl Rickard Rosemary Stevenson Lorna Watt Jack Bow, D. Kellett Cameron and Graham Webster Robert E. Kelly
	Subject(s)	Chisholm, Caroline; Colonial Period; Historical Events or Characters; Marriage; Public Life; Women's Issues
	Published	Mulga Publications, Sydney, 1943. Playbill No. 5, 1961. Eight Short Plays, Thomas Nelson Ltd., Melbourne, 1965.
	Held in MS/TS	QU: Hanger Collection has three copies: one under the title A Second Moses; two from radio adaptations, one of those by Caroline Clark Rees.

91	Author	Dann, George Landen
	Title	Fountains Beyond, The
	Date	1942
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	The main room of the Filmers' shack.
	Characters	VIC FILMER, a half-Caste of about 30 PEGGY FILMER, his wife HENRY, a very old Aborigine MR WATSON, a big man WALLY, a young Aborigine MISS MATTHEWS a faded, erect, bird-like little woman, uncertain age MISS HARNETT, English Authoress, traveller and lecturer
	Subject(s)	Aborigines; Assimilation; Politics and Ideology; Race Relations
	Published	Australasian Publishing Co., Sydney, 1944.
	Held in MS/TS	QU: Hanger Collection also holds a typescript of a musical play in three acts of the same title based on the original play, the adaptation by Dann with Gerry Cole, who composed the music.

92	Author	Dann, George Landen
	Title	How Far Returning
	Length	Five Scenes arranged as a symphony: Prologue, First Movement, Second Movement, Third Movement, Epilogue.
	Setting	Prologue: The Board Room in the Town Office of John Cameron & Co., Timber Merchants. 1932. First Movement: The Cameron's Home at Leader's Creek. Early in 1914. Second Movement: The office at Moomgoolba. Eighteen months later. Third Movement: The Town Office of John Cameron & Co. November 1918. Epilogue: The same as the Prologue. About one hour later.
	Characters	JOHN CAMERON ANDY DON JIM FERGUSON MARGARET EDITH MARY CAMERON JESSIE (The Elder) JESSIE (The Younger) MISS GILMORE
	Subject(s)	Family Relations; Great Depression; War; Work and Business; World War I
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

93	Author	Dann, George Landen
	Title	In Beauty it is Finished: A Play in Three Acts
	Date	1931
	Length	Three Acts: Five Scenes
	Setting	I A lighthouse keeper's home on an island off the Queensland coast. II.i Tom Stepple's hut. A month later. II.ii The same. An afternoon two months later. III.i The same as Act One. The same evening. III.ii The same. The morning.
	Characters	DAVID EDMONDS MARY EDMONDS JOYCE MARION TOM STEPPLE ANNIE
	Subject(s)	Aborigines; Assimilation; City vs Country; Race Relations; Women's Issues
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection. [Two versions held in Campbell Howard Collection, one a photocopy of the typescript held in the Hanger Collection].

94	Author	Dann, George Landen
	Title	No Incense Rising
	Date	1937 ca
	Length	Three Acts: Four Scenes
	Setting	I The living room in Mrs Bergmann's house. II The same. An afternoon three years later. III.i The same. Early evening. Three weeks later. III.ii The same. An afternoon. Two weeks later.
	Characters	MRS BERGMANN MRS CARNEY ADA CARL NILSSEN ELLEN MARY SINCLAIR SERGEANT McCARTHY
	Subject(s)	Family Relations; Suicide; Women's Issues
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection. [Two copies in Campbell Howard Collection, including a photocopy of a version by 'Rirolf' from the Eunice Hanger Collection].

95	Author	Dann, George Landen
	Title	Ring Out Wild Bells!: A Comedy
	Date	1958
	Length	Three Acts: Four Scenes
	Setting	The living room of St Lawrence's Rectory. I Saturday afternoon. II.i A morning some days later. II.ii An evening about a week later. III Saturday afternoon. The following week.
	Characters	REV STEPLE MILLCOTE PAMELA, his sister JUDY, his daughter PETER LAMBERT, Chairman of the Race Club ALICE LAMBERT, his wife JOHN, his son (engaged to Judy) BEVERLEY, the Millcote maid. A RADIO ANNOUNCER
	Subject(s)	Gambling; Horse Racing; Religion
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection.

96	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson (as George Byfield)
	Title	Fight, The: A Play in Four Acts
	Date	1915
	Length	Four Acts
	Setting	At the time of the Land Boom Crash. I A wood-panelled room in Shotwell's house. Evening. II The same. A month later. III A room in Dr Stanhope's house. Noon six weeks later. IV The same. A day later.
	Characters	MAGGIE MRS SHOTWELL MR SHOTWELL TOM INGLIS BOBBIE, their nephew DR STANHOPE ETTIE BEAUMONT, a niece by adoption MRS STANHOPE NANCE CROSSTHWAITE, nurse FLORRIE
	Cast	Miss E. Montague E.C. Davidson Percy Henry J.A. Davidson Baden Gilbert E. Bryning Isobel de Soyers J.M. Wilson Peggy Mudge E. Montague
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Typescript in Campbell Howard Collection written under the name George Byfield]

97	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	Forerunners (in the Reign of Victoria), The: A Historical Play
	Date	1925 ca
	Length	Eight Scenes and Aftermath [Epilogue]
	Setting	i The library in Colonel Raymer's town house, London. ii The goldfields of Ballarat in Victoria. 1854. iii A small study in the house of Rev. Father Smyth at Ballarat. Late afternoon. iv The official room of Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria. v A sparsely timbered stretch of land adjacent to Mother Jamieson's hotel, a portion of which is seen. vi An official room at the Military Camp, Ballarat. Forenoon, a few days later. vii A room in Mother Jamieson's Hotel on the outskirts of the Stockade. viii The same. Before dawn on Sunday 3rd December 1854. Aftermath. The site of the Stockade. 3rd December 1855.
	Characters	COLONEL MAURICE RAYMER SIR CHARLES HOTHAM, K.C.B., Governor of Victoria LADY RAYMER WILFRED RAYMER, alias Goodenough FOOTMAN CARBONI RAFFAELLO PETER LALOR MOTHER JAMIESON HARRY SEEKAMP TROOPER LORD JOHN GREGORY REV FATHER SMYTH REV DOWNING JOHN FOSTER, Colonial Secretary W. STAWELL, Attorney-General MESSENGER THOMAS KENNEDY GEORGE BLACK J. BASSON HUMFFRAY JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER, M.L.C. AN OLD MAN A WOMAN TIMOTHY HAYES MRS TIMOTHY HAYES LIEUTENANT ROSS EDWARD THONEN PATRICK CURTAIN ROBERT REDE, Goldfields Commissioner CAPTAIN THOMAS CAPTAIN H.C. WISE ORDERLY JENNIE DUNN FREDERICK VERN DR CARR JOHN LYNCH WOUNDED DIGGERS DIGGERS, POLICE, TROOPERS, etc.
	Subject(s)	Ballarat; Colonial Period; Eureka Stockade; Historical Events or Characters; Lalor, Peter; Law and Justice; Miners and Mining; Politics and Ideology
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

98	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	God Gift
	Date	1923
	Setting	An artistically furnished drawing room.
	Characters	MRS TREBELL MISS VIVA BRINSMERE MRS FIRTH-SMITHE MRS ERNEST EMERY MISS PEAL HOUSMAN MRS TREVELLYAN MISS TREVELLYAN MISS SONIA TREVELLYAN MRS FEATHERSTON MRS ROBERT EMERY MISS MALCOLM MRS TIER-BROWNE MISS CHOMLEY MRS ARTHUR BEVERLEY MISS NESTA BEVERLEY MISS HONOR LANDSBOROUGH MATZA and HER PARTNER MAIDS
	Subject(s)	Women's Issues

99	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	Just Mum: A Play in Three Acts (a.k.a. The Return)
	Date	1919
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	I The small living room in the Baxters' House. II A small room in a cheap lodging house in North Melbourne. III The same as in Act I, except that the tidiness is lacking.
	Characters	MRS BAXTER MISS BLAKE, a school mistress MR LUMLEY TOM HEPGRAVE JOHN BAXTER MYRTLE DICK BAXTER, son JACK BAXTER, son MRS HEPGRAVE ED FERNMERE MRS FERNMERE
	Cast	Agnes St Clair Miss Feuerman Claude Thomas S. R. Jenneson J. A. Davidson Ivy Tilly Joan Davidson L. G. Crossley Constance Webb George E. Hulston Eileen Mansfield
	Subject(s)	Family Relations; Marriage; Mental Illness
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Two versions held in the Campbell Howard Collection]

100	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	Moon Child, The
	Date	1915
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A valley surrounded on three sides by steep, wooded hills, whose crests are tipped with the gold of the rising moon.
	Characters	FIREHEART MOONCHILD MYAMYN MOHABIE MINYIP PURDEET MIAKITE MINHAMITE BIOLITE MURRUM MITA BUNYIP SAPLING MAIDS and YOUTHS BRACKEN MAIDS and YOUTHS
	Subject(s)	Aborigines; Fantasy; Mythology
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Two different versions in Campbell Howard Collection]

101	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	Prisoners: A Play
	Date	1919
	Length	One Act
	Characters	TWILIGHT SHADOWS MOTHER CHILD TRAMP POET
	Subject(s)	Fantasy; Materialism
	Published	Endacott, Melbourne, 1919

102	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	Reason, The: A One Act Play
	Date	1929
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A large, but none too prosperous studio.
	Characters	JIM DEFTON KEITH SARGEANT OLIVE SARGEANT, Jim's sister COLLECTOR
	Cast	Leon Forbes Paul Hill Joan Davidson Alexander Nicholas
	Subject(s)	Art and Artists; Marriage; Women's Issues
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Two versions held in Campbell Howard Collection]

103	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	Remedy, The
	Date	1913 ca
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The den of Max Sorell's House. A winter's day in 1913.
	Characters	MR MAX SORELL, a stock broker MR GEOFFREY SLONE, a solicitor and Sorell's brother-in-law MRS MARJORIE SORELL, Max's wife MRS SUE SLONE, Max's sister and Geoffrey's wife MISS MILICENT BROOKES, a nurse and Sue's cousin
	Subject(s)	Gambling
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

104	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	Root Borer, The: A Play in One Act
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A flag-paved, roomy kitchen. Late afternoon.
	Characters	THE OLD MAN MARY, his daughter BILL, his son CHARLIE, his grand-son RUTH, his grand-daughter SWIVEL THE SWAGGIE
	Subject(s)	Marriage
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

105	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson (a.k.a. Warrigal)
	Title	Sorrell, A Play in Three Acts
	Date	1923
	Length	Three Acts: Four Scenes
	Setting	I A handsomely furnished lounge in Richard Sorell's house. II.i The same. Next day. II.ii The same. Next morning. II The same. In the evening a week later.
	Characters	MRS WESTON JIMMIE McLEAN RICHARD SORELL MARTHA McLEAN MISS MILLICENT DERWENT MRS SORELL MABEL GEOFFREY WESTON MRS McARTHUR MRS LYNDEN
	Subject(s)	Alcoholism; Gambling; Marriage
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Two copies held in the Campbell Howard Collection, one attributed to "Warrigal".]

106	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	Squall, The: A Play in One Act
	Date	1932
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The sitting room in the house of Edward Grey.
	Characters	WHEAT GREY, aged twenty BASIL GREY, aged twenty-two AMADI DAVID BLAIR, aged thirty MRS GREY, aged about fifty
	Subject(s)	Paranormal and Spiritual
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

107	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	Star of Bethlehem, The
	Date	1929
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	I A street in Bethlehem. II The plains where the flocks feed. III The interior of the stable.
	Characters	FIRST MAN SECOND MAN STRIPLING MOTHER AARON A GOSSIP A WOMAN MARY JOSEPH HOSTESS ABNER JOAL LEVI JANNA GABRIEL FIRST WISE MAN SECOND WISE MAN THIRD WISE MAN
	Subject(s)	Pageant; Religion
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

108	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	Widowhood of Suzanne, The: A Comedy in Three Acts
	Date	1929
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	I A room in Guy Thorncroft's bachelor appartments. II A room in Suzanne's house. III The same. Three days later.
	Characters	MRS BRIDLE GUY THORNCROFT SIMKINS LADY PENROSE AMBROSE DOUALL SUZANNE LESTER JANIE AUNT BEE
	Cast	Estelle McDonald Paul Hill Reginald Harper Carmen Voorhies John Tracey Joan Davidson Daphne Miller Gwen Suffern
	Subject(s)	Money; Social Status
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection [Two versions of this play held in the Campbell Howard Collection]

109	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	"Winkle" Intervenes: A Comedy in Three Acts
	Date	1931
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	I The sitting room of the Miltons' house at Malvern, Victoria. II The same. III The same.
	Characters	HELEN MILTON MRS TERENCE BEECHAM MRS MILTON GERTIE GEOFFREY MILTON ARNOLD WHEATLEY REGGIE MOUBRAY WILL BEECHAM HONMAN MILTON MISS HICKSON
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Two versions in Campbell Howard Collection]

110	Author	Davidson, E. Coulson
	Title	Winter Guest, The
	Setting	A room in an exclusive summer guest-house in the hills. A wild winter night in 1917.
	Characters	THE MOTHER ALLIE, JOYCE and MATTIE, her daughters THE WOMAN
	Subject(s)	Paranormal and Spiritual; War; World War I

111	Author	Davson, Win
	Title	Stars Grow Pale, The : A Play in One Act
	Date	1958
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The living room of a farm house in Paradise, a small town in the fictional Bunyip Valley.
	Characters	UNCLE FORESIGHT, a genial, elderly farmer KAY, his niece, in love with Michael PERCY, a flashy, unprincipled fellow AGNES, a rather prim but delightful person VALENTINE and JENNIFER, a likeable young couple MICHAEL, a farrier-in love with Kay.
	Subject(s)	Bush Life; City vs Country; Theatre Life
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection. ANL holds a collection of Win Davson papers, MS 5637.

112	Author	Deamer, Dulcie
	Title	Easter: A Morality Play
	Date	1933
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A garden in autumn.
	Characters	LOVE MEMORY WISDOM SKILL DEATH DECADENCE THE MAN
	Subject(s)	Morality Play; Religion
	Published	Australian Theatre Society, Sydney, ca 1933. Best Australian One-Act Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1937.
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection. ANL holds a collection of Dulcie Deamer papers.

113	Author	Deamer, Dulcie
	Title	In the Heart of a Woman: A Christmas Morality Play
	Date	1933
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The dimly-seen interior of an Oriental Inn.
	Characters	INTELLECT INDULGENCE VANITY PITY THE INTRUDER
	Subject(s)	Morality Play
	Published	Australian Theatre Society, Sydney, ca 1933.
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection. ANL holds a collection of Dulcie Deamer papers.

114	Author	Deamer, Dulcie
	Title	In the Mind of a Child: A Morality Play
	Date	1933
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A pirate's cave.
	Characters	THE HERO MARY NEXT-DOOR THE SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE CONSCIENCE UNCLE JOHN MOTHER
	Subject(s)	Morality Play
	Published	Australian Theatre Society, Sydney, ca 1933.
	Held in MS/TS	MS/TS NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. ANL holds a collection of Dulcie Deamer papers.

115	Author	Deamer, Dulcie
	Title	In the Soul of a Man: A Morality Play
	Date	1933
	Length	One Act
	Setting	Inside the soul of a man.
	Characters	GREED PRIDE LUST REASON GENEROSITY FEAR SIMPLICITY THE MASTER
	Subject(s)	Morality Play
	Published	Australian Theatre Society, Sydney, ca 1933.
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection. ANL holds a collection of Dulcie Deamer papers.

116	Author	Deamer, Dulcie
	Title	Lucid Interval, The: In Three Acts
	Date	1932
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	I The living room in Jasper Grant's flat. Early evening. The near future. II The same. A month later. Early evening. III The interior of a communal, rough-hewn timber home built on a mountainside. A century later.
	Characters	MORNA GRANT JOY GRANT PATRICIA GRANT CORAL MARTIN MARY JASPER GRANT IAN MALCOLM COLIN MARTIN A LIFT DRIVER (afterwards THE MAN)
	Subject(s)	Moral Degeneration; Science
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. ANL holds a collection of Dulcie Deamer papers.

117	Author	Deamer, Dulcie
	Title	Messenger, The: A Play in Two Acts
	Date	1930 ca
	Length	Two Acts
	Setting	Period: a little in advance of the present day. I Prologue: a bomb shelter, a muffled rumble of sound suggests gun fire. Blackout and then a workshop, opening on to a street. II.i The workshop II.ii A room in the home of the President.
	Characters	EMMANUEL, the Messenger THE DICTATOR-PRESIDENT ('THE BOSS') JOHN, his son SAUL LAZARUS THE BLIND MAN THE SOLDIER THE MOTHER, who also plays THE SOUL OF THE WORLD MARTHA MARY, her daughter MAGDALENE VARIOUS VOICES, VERSE-SPEAKING CHOIR, NAMELESS MEN and WOMEN, WORKERS, SOLDIERS
	Subject(s)	Morality Play; Nuclear Threat; Pacifism; Science; War
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection. ANL holds a collection of Dulcie Deamer papers.

118	Author	Deamer, Dulcie
	Title	Revaluation
	Date	1935
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A corner of the Sydney Domain.
	Characters	METHO ANNIE JIM MONA JOHN THE STRANGER
	Cast	Dulcie Deamer Edwin Deamer Paddy Booth William Helmrich Richard Harcourt Hare
	Subject(s)	Morality Play; Paranormal and Spiritual
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. ANL holds a collection of Dulcie Deamer papers.

119	Author	Deamer, Dulcie
	Title	That by Which Men Live: A Play in Four Acts
	Date	1936
	Length	Four Acts
	Setting	I A cheap basement cafe situated in what was originally a church crypt. Twenty years or so in the future. II The same. Two hours later. III The same. A week later. 3.00 pm in the afternoon IV The same. Between 11 o'clock and midnight.
	Characters	SONIA HELLMAN FAITH BRENTWOOD AGNES BRENTWOOD MRS BRENTWOOD CORINE CLARK ERIC BURTON JOHN BRENTWOOD JOHN BRENTWOOD, SENIOR PAUL IVANOVITCH AUGUSTUS A SERGEANT OF POLICE THE ANGEL MATERIALISTS, BELIEVERS and POLICE
	Subject(s)	Morality Play; Religion
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. ANL holds a collection of Dulcie Deamer papers.

120	Author	Deamer, Dulcie
	Title	Victory: A Play in Three Acts
	Date	1938
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	I A cafe lounge. About 11 o'clock at night. II Zita's flat. Twenty minutes later. III The principal rooom of a flat in a slum tenement. Mid-afternoon the next day.
	Characters	DAVID MANSON DOCTOR STEPHEN HARDING JOHN LIONEL WARWICK, President and Dictator CHARLIE ROBINS ALEC A SOLDIER OF NORTHLAND A WAITER A YOUNG MAN TWO MEMBERS OF SOUTHLAND'S SPARTAN GUARD ZITA LAGRANGE ANNE ROBINS FLEURETTE FLEURETTE'S AUNT
	Subject(s)	Morality Play; Pacifism
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. ANL holds a collection of Dulcie Deamer papers.

121	Author	Denby, Alan
	Title	Spirits
	Date	1941
	Length	One Act
	Setting	In the kitchen of a cheap, dirty tenement.
	Characters	MRS ELLAMS SALLY BERT MRS JOHNSTONE AMY
	Subject(s)	Alcoholism; Paranormal and Spiritual
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

122	Author	Dennis, C. J.
	Title	Sentimental Bloke, The;
	Date	1923
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	I.i Spager's Lane - Just Moochin' round. I.ii The kitchen at Mar's - My luck to strike the likes o' her, Doreen. II.i Parlor at Mar's - Me troso' ead to foot was noo, got up regardless for this intervoo. II.ii The same. Five days later - And allat once I seen the kind of crool and 'artless brute I been. III.i The Kid's orchard - A boy, she says, and both is doing well. I drops into the chair and just says 'Ell. III.ii The same. Three months later - And I am blessed because me feet have trod a land whose fields reflect the smile o' God.
	Characters	AH QUONG SMOKY OTTAM ("The Stror 'at Coot") STEVE GUN, a stealer and a con man SPIKE WEGG, his apprentice GINGER MICK, the Kid's cobber BILL( the KID, The Sentimental Bloke) JAMES AIREY ("UNCLE JIM"), a retired farmer MRS DARLING, Doreen's Mar, a widow. ARTY APPS, a trick EFFIE, his fiasco MRS ENTWISTLE DOREEN 'ERB, a farm 'and NURSE
	Cast	Barney Egan Freddy Brown Arthur Shirley Jack Souter Tal Ordel Walter Cornock Edward Landor Stella Payten Herbert C. Walton Eisa Crossley Alice Walton Eileen Alexander Leslie Gordon Alfreda Devon
	Subject(s)	Slum Life

123	Author	Dibley, Arthur W.
	Title	Dwellers Upon Earth, The
	Length	One Act
	Setting	Mars. Tonight.
	Characters	THE SCIENTIST ASSISTANT
	Subject(s)	Science; Suicide
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

124	Author	Dibley, Arthur W.
	Title	Expatriate, The
	Date	1934
	Length	One Act
	Setting	Inside a cheap dance hall not far from the docks of a small French port.
	Characters	THE WOMAN THE MAN A SAILOR HIS COMPANION
	Cast	Beatrice Wines Richard Searle Frank Appleton Irene Appleton
	Subject(s)	Work and Business
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

125	Author	Dibley, Arthur W.
	Title	Safe, The
	Date	1930
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A room leading to a Safe Deposit.
	Characters	CUMMINS ANDERSON
	Cast	Jackson W Richards John Appleton
	Subject(s)	Law and Justice; Work and Business
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

126	Author	Dibley, Arthur W.
	Title	Slender Threshold
	Date	1930
	Length	One Act: Two Scenes
	Setting	The Lounge of Paula Housemann's flat.
	Characters	MARJORIE STAYNOR PAULA HOUSEMANN RICHARD BAILLIE MRS STAYNOR MRS ROWDEN PATRICIA ROWDEN
	Cast	Nancy Ruthven Lorna Harwood Noni Dunne L Hay Simpson Myra Leard Myrna Dickey
	Subject(s)	Marriage; Mental Illness
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

127	Author	Doyle, John W. (Trans. from the Anglo-Norman Dated ca 1160)
	Title	Adam: A Play
	Date	1938
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	I The Fall. II The Cain and Abel Story. III Abraham, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Balaam, Daniel, Habacuc, Jeremias, and Isaias appear to fortell the coming of Christ''and Adam He shall draw from his great grief and set him back in Paradise.'
	Characters	GOD ADAM EVE THE DEVIL CAIN ABEL ABRAHAM MOSES AARON DAVID SOLOMON BALAAM DANIEL HABACUC JEREMIAS ISAIAS A JEW AN ANGEL DEMONS
	Subject(s)	Mystery Play; Mythology; Religion
	Published	Shakespeare Head Press Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1948
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Two versions, one more colloquial, held in Campbell Howard Collection.]

128	Author	Drake-Brockman, Henrietta Frances York
	Title	Blister, The
	Date	1937
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The bar of a pub in a coastal town in North Australia.
	Characters	MYRTLE, a barmaid GEORGES RUBENSTEIN, a pearl-buyer SID KEELER, a seedy lawyer CAPTAIN MUTCH, a master-pearler MURRAY, another pearler BILL and PAT, young shell openers FRANCIS DURHAM, a pearler AH CHI, a Chinese pearl-cleaner
	Subject(s)	Bush Life
	Published	Fifty One-Act Plays, Victor Gollancz, London, 1940. Men Without Wives and Other Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1955.
	Held in MS/TS	WLB: A collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman Papers is held in the Battye Library, Perth: Acc. Nos. 1300A & 1311A. ANL holds a collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman papers.

129	Author	Drake-Brockman, Henrietta Frances York
	Title	Dampier's Ghost: A Comedy
	Date	1933
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The verandah of the Bishop's bungalow in Broome, Western Australia, in 1927.
	Characters	THE BISHOP, a very human Lord of the Church MASSINGHAM, a visitor MAC, a young Scotsman MIKE, an old Irishman ITAM, a Malay servant.
	Subject(s)	Crime
	Published	Best Australian One-Act Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1937. Men Without Wives and Other Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1955.
	Held in MS/TS	WLB: A collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman Papers is held in the Battye Library, Perth: Acc. Nos. 1300A & 1311A. ANL holds a collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman papers.

130	Author	Drake-Brockman, Henrietta Frances York
	Title	Destroyers, The: A Play in Two Acts
	Date	1960 ca
	Length	Two Acts
	Setting	I.i Duncan's home in Scotland. Sunday evening. I.ii Court-martial in France. Six weeks later. I.iii Duncan's home in Scotland. A week later. I.iv The same. Eighteen months later. II.i Scott's farm in Australia. A year or two later. II.ii The same. Ten years later. II.iii News Flash. II.iv A gaol cell. II.v A hospital ward.
	Characters	JAMES DUNCAN JANET DUNCAN, his wife JENNY DUNCAN , his daughter ANGUS GIBSON, his partner PETER SCOTT, an Australian soldier THE COLONEL THE MAJOR CAPTAIN BENNETT CAPTAIN SAYERS MAJOR PEARSE SERGEANT-MAJOR MILITARY POLICEMAN MR ROBINSON, a bank inspector CROXLEY, another bank inspector MRS DENT, an Australian farmer's wife VALERIE SPEARS, a shop-girl NEWSBOY PASSERS-BY, WHEAT FARMERS and WIVES LAWYER DOCTORS, GAOL WARDERS, PRISONERS, NURSES
	Subject(s)	Law and Justice; Mental Illness; Returned Servicemen; War; World War I
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. WLB: A collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman Papers is held in the Battye Library, Perth: Acc. Nos. 1300A & 1311A. ANL holds a collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman papers.

131	Author	Drake-Brockman, Henrietta Frances York
	Title	Hot Gold
	Date	1940
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Race Week, 1940. I.i Hannan Street on the eve of the Kalgoorlie Cup, 8.00 p.m. I.ii The kitchen-living room at MacAllister's place. 8.40 p.m. I.iii The same. 11.30 p.m. II.i Underground in the Eureka Shaft. 2.30 p.m. the next day. II.ii An upstairs room at Rienzi's joint. 3.15 a.m. the next day. III.i The kitchen-living room at MacAllister's place. 5.00 a.m. III.ii Moxon's office. Saturday, 11.00 a.m.
	Characters	GIRLIE BELL, a young girl FIRST DRUNK, a booze artist SECOND DRUNK, a beer swill FIRST MAN, a street lounger SECOND MAN, a miner LINDA, a visitor HAMMETT MOXON, a mine manager JONES, a jeweller DONALD MacALLISTER, a young miner THIRD MAN, a miner RIENZI, a buyer of stolen gold MacALLISTER, an old-timer MRS BELL, a hard case BELL, a miner SNAKEY EVANS, a machine-drill miner BABY, a factotum DETECTIVE SERGEANT, of the Gold-Stealing Detection Staff DETECTIVE, of the Gold-Stealing Detection Staff WILSON, a confidential clerk PASSERS-BY, in Hannan Street POLICEMEN
	Subject(s)	Crime; Kalgoorlie; Miners and Mining
	Published	Men Without Wives and Other Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1955.
	Held in MS/TS	WLB: Battye Library. A collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman Papers is held in the Battye Library, Perth: Acc. Nos. 1300A & 1311A. ANL holds a collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman papers.

132	Author	Drake-Brockman, Henrietta Frances York
	Title	Man from the Bush, The; A Burlesque
	Date	1932
	Length	One Act
	Setting	Any park anywhere in Australia. The Present.
	Characters	THE MAN FROM THE BUSH THE POLICEMAN THE COMPANY DIRECTOR HIS WIFE THE BEGGAR THE ORGANIZER THE WORKMAN THE GIRL
	Cast	Charles Winzer Charles Zeisler Oscar Gliddon Linda Green James Quinn John Mason John Cox Nancy Bloxsome
	Subject(s)	City vs Country; Great Depression; Law and Justice
	Published	Eight Plays by Australians, Dramatists' Club, Melbourne, 1934.
	Held in MS/TS	WLB: A collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman Papers is held in the Battye Library, Perth: Acc. Nos. 1300A & 1311A. ANL holds a collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman papers.

133	Author	Drake-Brockman, Henrietta Frances York
	Title	Men Without Wives
	Date	1938
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	Northern Australia. ca 1933. I The dining room at Kooli Crossing homestead. II The living room over at the Bateses. III A bedroom at Kooli Crossing homestead.
	Characters	LOVATT, the manager of Kooli Croosing cattle station FRED, the cook at Kooli MRS BATES, a hard-bitten northerner CHANNA, a house-gin at Kooli ANDY, a young bookkeeper at Kooli JECKS, a stockman from Erriba Downs cattle station KIT ABBOT, a young woman from the south JOHN ABBOT, the owner-manager of Erriba Downs JOE BATES, a drover turned squatter TOM BATES LULU BATES CLARA BATES BOB McKEE, an insurance agent DR LUCAS JONES, a newly graduated medico
	Cast	Edward Cavill Walter Wright Doris Williams Molly Ramsay James Flanagan William Wines Valerie Ball Claude Fleeting William State John Bishop Eila Langton Valerie Scanlon William Smith Leslie Williams
	Subject(s)	Bush Life; City vs Country; Marriage
	Published	First Published in several parts in the Sydney Mail, Sydney, 1938. Patersons Press, Perth,1938. Men Without Wives and Other Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1955.
	Held in MS/TS	QU: Hanger Collection. WLB: Battye Library. A collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman Papers is held in the Battye Library, Perth: Acc. Nos. 1300A & 1311A. ANL holds a collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman papers.

134	Author	Drake-Brockman, Henrietta Frances York
	Title	Quick and the Dead, The: An Experiment
	Setting	The hall of the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
	Characters	KIRKE HART, mining magnate MILLA WOLF, a free-lance journalist MR NICOLSON, a club man HALL PORTER TELEPHONE GIRL HOTEL RESIDENT
	Subject(s)	Infidelity; Marriage; Materialism; Money; Social Status
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. WLB: A collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman Papers is held in the Battye Library, Perth: Acc. Nos. 1300A & 1311A. ANL holds a collection of Henrietta Drake-Brockman papers, this play being MS 5579/28.

135	Author	Duhig, James Vincent
	Title	Ruling Passion, The
	Date	1935
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The bar of the pub in a small town in Western Queensland.
	Characters	JAMES McCALL, a horse trainer MARY McCALL, his wife DAVE, a stockman BILL, a saddler TONY, an auctioneer STEVE, a storekeeper HARRY, a drover GERTIE, a barmaid BARNEY SCANLAN, a publican
	Subject(s)	Domestic Life; Gambling; Horse Racing; Money
	Published	The Best One-Act Plays of 1935, Harrap, London, 1936.

136	Author	Duncan, Catherine
	Title	Sons of the Morning: A Verse Play in Three Acts
	Date	1943 [First written in 1943 and revised for production in 1945]
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	A farm house in the hills of Crete in May 1941. I Twilight. II Later the same night. III Shortly before dawn the next morning.
	Characters	CHRISTOS VELENZAS, a farmer CHRISTINA, his daugter NOULOS, betrothed to Christina KATOS, an old Cretan MAJOR ANSON, a wounded Australian officer SGT DAVID BLAKE, an escaping Australian soldier RUDOLF FRANCKE, a German Paratrooper BLUEY, a Digger, also escaping NARRATOR
	Cast	Les Davey Robin Mackay William Juliff Meyer Herman Charles Allen William Ryall William Griffith William Phillips
	Subject(s)	Military Life; Race Relations; Verse Drama; War; World War II
	Published	Mulga Publications, Sydney, 1946
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

137	Author	Duncan, Catherine
	Title	Sword Sung, The
	Date	1938
	Length	Seven Episodes
	Setting	i An Australian dock from which a troop ship is leaving. ii On board the troop ship, somewhere in the tropics. iii Anywhere in Australia. iv Outside a cafe not far behind the lines. A year later. v The battlefield. A year later. vi A hospital. vii An Australian dock. After the war.
	Characters	MICHAEL, a soldier MARIAN, his wife THE OPPORTUNIST (who is also the INN-KEEPER and the SCIENTIST) THE CLERIC (who is also the DOCTOR) FIRST , SECOND,THIRD, and FOURTH SOLDIERS A HARLOT A PRISONER A NURSE AN OFFICER A CABERET SINGER A CHORUS OF FARMERS' WIVES
	Subject(s)	Military Life; Pacifism; Verse Drama; War
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

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