|
171 |
Author |
Hamilton, Katherine |
| |
Title |
le Party Man, The: A Comedy in One Act |
| |
Date |
One Act |
| |
Setting |
The
living room of the Bragges' house in an outer suburb on a wet
Saturday afternoon. |
| |
Characters |
- THOMAS
BRAGGE
- MILLICENT
BRAGGE, his wife
- ALAN
BRAGGE, their younger son
- JOHN
PHIPPS, a clerk employed by Thomas
- GERALD
ROWLEY, a friend of Alan
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Politics
and Ideology; Social Status |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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| 172 |
Author |
Handley,
Isobel J. |
| |
Title |
Handcuffs
for One |
| |
Date |
1930 |
| |
Length |
Three Acts |
| |
Subject(s) |
Crime |
| |
|
|
| 173 |
Author |
Handley,
Isobel J. |
| |
Title |
Mystery
of Manfred Moon |
| |
Length |
One Act |
| |
Setting |
The
interior of a peaceful cottage. |
| |
Characters |
- THE
INTRODUCER
- THE
AGED PARENT
- THE
LOYAL SERVANT
- THE
VILLAIN
- THE
HEROINE
- THE
HERO
- THE
ADVENTURESS
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Verse
Drama |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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| |
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| 174 |
Author |
Hanger,
Eunice |
| |
Title |
2D |
| |
Date |
1958 |
| |
Length |
Three Acts |
| |
Setting |
Ward
2D, Accident Ward in the General Hospital, Brisbane.
- I
Early morning of a Tuesday in March.
-
II Later the same day.
- III
Immediately afterwards.
|
| |
Characters |
- NIGHT
SISTER, who also plays ENA
- NURSE BOLTON, who also plays DEBBIE
WALTERS
-
LEN WALTERS, who also plays DR MONCKTON-SMITH and also one
of EDDIE'S FRIENDS
- FIRST
DAY SISTER, who also plays MRS RONSON
- EDDIE,
who also plays DR WATSON, THE HOUSE DOCTOR and one of EDDIE'S
FRIENDS
- MICK
FARRELLY, who plays DR DIXON, one of the JUNIOR DOCTORS
and a CLERGYMAN
- NURSE
ANSON, who also plays MRS FARRELLY
- MR
MACKLIN, who also plays one of the JUNIOR DOCTORS
- SECOND
DAY SISTER, who also plays LAURA, Macklin's daughter.
- NURSE
GRIMMETT, who also plays the girl called MAV, who comes
with EDDIE'S FRIENDS, and PHYSIO-THERAPHY GIRL
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Hospitals;
Work and Business |
| |
Published |
Published
in 2D and Other Plays, University of Queensland Press,
St Lucia, 1978. |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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| |
|
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| 175 |
Author |
Hanger, Eunice |
| |
Title |
Flood |
| |
Date |
1955 |
| |
Length |
Two
Acts |
| |
Setting |
- I
The living room in the Morrison's home, a good average Australian
middle-class home.
- II
The same.
|
| |
Characters |
- LES
MORRISON
- JOE
- Mr Morrison
- GLAD
- Mrs Morrison
-
BARBARA MORRISON
- DAVID
MORRISON
- JANIE
MORRISON
- ROBERT
METLUK
- ERIC
MULRAY
- RADIO
VOICE
- MRS
MULRAY
- MRS
ELVERSON
-
MRS PECK
- MRS
COURTNEY
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Flood;
Verse Drama |
| |
Published |
2D
and Other Plays, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1978. |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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| |
|
|
| 176 |
Author |
Hanger,
Eunice |
| |
Title |
Foundations |
| |
Date |
1952 |
| |
Length |
Three Acts |
| |
Setting |
- I
A street running between two houses. About 7.30 a.m. on
a morning in October.
- II
The same. Late afternoon on the same day.
- III
The same. About 7.00 that evening
|
| |
Characters |
- CON
STEWART, a university student
- MRS
HENRY, a middle-aged woman
- DELL
ROBINSON, an attractive girl of eighteen
- ANN
McGREGOR, a young married woman
- CHRIS
HENRY, Mrs Henry's daughter. Thirty,
fat and jolly
- JIM
McGREGOR, Ann's husband. A bank teller
- MICK
RANKIN, a businesman, forty
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Domestic
Life |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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| |
|
|
| 177 |
Author |
Hanger,
Eunice |
| |
Title |
Short
Street: A Play for Children |
| |
Date |
1955 |
| |
Length |
Three Acts |
| |
Setting |
- I
Short Street.
- II
The same. One Saturday afternoon in summer.
-
III Inside the Smiths' house. Saturday night.
|
| |
Characters |
- MR
AND MRS SMITH
- BILL
AND DIANE SMITH, their children
- MRS
JONES
- ISABEL,
MERYLL, SUZANNE, TOMMY, CYRIL, HARRY, JONNY AND ELSPETH
JONES, her children.
- MR
JONES (may appear but can be done without)
- MR
and MRS ROBINSON
- MR
and MRS BROWN
- MRS
WHITE
- HERBERT
WHITE
- MRS
GREEN
- DULCIE
GREEN
- THE
WOMEN FROM THE NEXT STREET
- THE
GIRLS FROM SCHOOL
- TWO
BOYS FROM THE BANK
- TWO
GIRLS FROM THE OFFICE
- MABEL
BLUE
- THE
CHORUS
- PARASKA
MILLER
-
EXTRA PEOPLE FOR DANCING, etc., in Act III if it seems desirable.
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Children's
Theatre; Domestic Life |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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|
| 178 |
Author |
Hanger,
Eunice |
| |
Title |
Upstage |
| |
Date |
1951 |
| |
Length |
One
Act |
| |
Setting |
The
drawing room in the "other world" house of Will Shakespeare.
Afternoon. |
| |
Characters |
- THE
MAID
- HERMIONE
- JULIET
- JULIET'S
NURSE
- OPHELIA
- DESDEMONA
- PORTIA
I (Julius Caesar)
-
ROSALIND
- VIOLA
- CRESSIDA
- NELL
QUICKLY
- IMOGEN
PORTIA II (Merchant of Venice)
-
LADY MacBETH
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Art
and Artists; Women's Issues; Writers and Writing |
| |
Published |
Samuel
French Ltd, London, 1952. |
| |
|
|
| 179 |
Author |
Hardy,
Frank |
| |
Title |
Black
Diamonds |
| |
Date |
1958 |
| |
Length |
Three Acts |
| |
Setting |
- I
Present Day.
- II
Morning. Two days later.
- III
Two days later.
|
| |
Characters |
- SPEC
-
EVAN
- YORKY
-
SONNY
- DAD
- DEVALERA
- FLASH
ALEC
- BODGIE
KID
- TRAPPER
-
DOCTOR MAC
-
BILL
- SIR
ALBERT
-
HAXTON
- THE
BASTARD
- THE
CRAWLER
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Trade
Unionism; Work and Business |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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variant endings are provided in NUNE script] ANL holds a collection
of Frank Hardy papers, MS 4887. |
| |
|
|
| 176 |
Author |
Harvey,
Frank |
| |
Title |
Last
Enemy, The: A Play in Three Acts and Seven Scenes |
| |
Date |
1929 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts |
| |
Subject(s) |
Antarctica;
Fantasy; Paranormal and Spiritual; War; World War I |
| |
Published |
George
Allen and Unwin, London, 1930. |
| |
|
|
| 177 |
Author |
Harvey,
Joan |
| |
Title |
Hidden
Valley, The: A Play in One Act |
| |
Date |
1936 |
| |
Length |
One
Act |
| |
Setting |
The
kitchen of Dave Shearer's hut in a remote valley in the unexplored
regions of Tasmania, beyond the fringe of habitation and the
controlling forces of the law. |
| |
Characters |
- MARY
SHEARER, the Bride
- DAVE
SHEARER, the Bridegroom
- ADA,
an old friend of Mary's
- ALF,
a farmer and husband of Ada
- GARRY,
their son
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Bush
Life; Marriage |
| |
Published |
Five
Plays by Australians, Dramatists' Club, Melbourne, 1936. |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
QU: Hanger Collection. |
| |
|
|
| 178 |
Author |
Harvey,
Joan |
| |
Title |
Light
Breaking Through |
| |
Date |
1934 |
| |
Length |
One
Act |
| |
Setting |
A
popular camping place amongst the ti-trees on the Mornington
Penisular in Victoria. |
| |
Characters |
-
MARY
-
DOUGLAS
-
THE STRANGER
|
| |
Cast |
-
Ruby May
- Harry
Traynor
-
John Dudley
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Marriage;
Women's Issues; Work and Business |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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|
| 179 |
Author |
Harvey,
Joan |
| |
Title |
Looking
for Gold: A Play of the Depression (a.k.a. Gold) |
| |
Date |
1934 |
| |
Length |
One Act |
| |
Setting |
The
bottom of a clay gully, about 25 miles from Melbourne. February
1933. |
| |
Characters |
- RALPH
DAVID, an artist
- JENNY
DAVID, his wife
- TRELAWNY,
an old fossicker
-
THE COMMUNIST, a man of sustenance
- THE
SPIRITUALIST, a man of sustenance
- THE
UNEMPLOYABLE, a man of sustenance
-
MISS CAMERON, a charming lady
- "BER'
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Great
Depression; Miners and Mining; Social Status; Suicide |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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|
|
| 180 |
Author |
Harvey,
Joan |
| |
Title |
Peace
by the Derwent |
| |
Date |
1935 |
| |
Length |
Four Acts |
| |
Setting |
- I
An old-world home in Hobart, Tasmania in 1913. Among the
lilies and roses in the cool fragrance of Mrs Strickland's
drawing room.
- II
A drab apartment at No. 29 Kings Terrace, London. 1915.
The war clouds hang heavy over the city and the booming
of the big guns in Flanders can be heard on the still, clear
nights.
- III
The pantry of Nateby V.A.D. Hospital in London. 1917. The
tide of battle swings from east to west, and west to east.
From all corners of the globe come the wounded to the sheltering
haven of the hospitals.
- IV
A little farm up the Derwent Valley in Tasmania in 1935,
where the blue river winds its way in peaceful serenity
through rugged mountain passes, fringed with green slopes
and scattered homesteads, where the orchards lie in the
golden sunshine heavy with clustering fruit.
|
| |
Characters |
-
MISS SMITH THE ELDER (Aunt Eglantine)
-
MISS SMITH THE YOUNGER (Aunt Pops)
-
MRS STRICKLAND (Aunt Agatha)
-
KEN MAXTEAD
-
LEONARD HENDERSON
-
MARJORIE STRICKLAND
-
THE HOUSEKEEPER
-
MINNIE
-
JANE (Kitchen)
-
V.A.D.
-
BOUNDY
-
THE COMMANDANT
-
SAM
|
| |
Cast |
-
Agnes St Clair
-
Alberta Conroy
-
Mena Hede
-
John Rose
-
George Walton
-
Bernice Lum
-
Madge Knight
-
Jean Swinburne
-
Kathleen Quirk
-
Myra Nicholson
-
Douglas Kelly
-
Joyce Perrin
-
Hal Moors
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Returned
Servicemen; War; World War I |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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|
| 181 |
Author |
Harvey,
Joan |
| |
Title |
Random
Elements: A Play of Australian Youth |
| |
Date |
1938 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts |
| |
Setting |
- I
The living room at the Dymants.
- II.i
The same.
- II.ii
The same.
- II.iii
The same.
-
III The same. A year later.
|
| |
Characters |
-
JANETTA DYMANT
-
JUDY EDEN
-
RUPERT DYMANT
-
GRIFF DYMANT
-
CHYRSTAL DYMANT
- PHILLIP
EDEN
-
RALPH CONNYBERE
-
RADIO ANNOUNCER
-
RADIO VOICE
|
| |
Cast |
-
Clarice Graham
-
Kathleen Morri
-
Pip Wilson
-
Hugh McLean
-
Shirley McLeod
-
David Reid
-
Peter Harnetty
-
Lane Nicholls
-
Will Greene
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Art
and Artists; Youth |
| |
|
|
| 182 |
Author |
Harvey, Joan |
| |
Title |
Where
is Your Victory?: A One Act Play |
| |
Date |
1956 |
| |
Length |
One
Act |
| |
Setting |
Thick
bush on a mountain slope in the south-east corner of Tasmania. |
| |
Characters |
- ROBERT,
a medical student from the Mainland
- BONNIE,
the daughter of a well-to-do orchardist
|
| |
Cast |
Bonnie
played by Elizabeh Sharland in the 7NZ broadCast. |
| |
Subject(s) |
Marriage |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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|
| 183 |
Author |
Hastings,
Hugh |
| |
Title |
Blood
Orange: A Play in Three Acts |
| |
Date |
1956 |
| |
Length |
Three Acts: Eight Scenes |
| |
Setting |
George's
house, 60 miles from Sydney.
-
I.i A summer afternoon.
- I.ii
A Saturday afternoon several weeks later.
- II.i
One month later.
- II.ii
One week later.
- II.iii
Several weeks later.
- III.i
Dawn the following morning.
- III.ii
The next morning 'not long before dawn.
- III.iii
Several weeks later.
|
| |
Characters |
- MAE
- SALLY
- GRACE
- GEORGE
- TAM
-
BESS
- TAYLOR
- BRIDGET
-
MITCHELL
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Family
Relations |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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|
| 184 |
Author |
Hastings,
Hugh |
| |
Title |
Christmas,
an Elephant! A Farcical Comedy (a.k.a. There's an Elephant at
the Bottom of My Garden; a.k.a. Pink Elephants) |
| |
Date |
1955 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts: Four Scenes |
| |
Setting |
The
all-purpose room in the Reads' house in Hampstead.
- I
Just before breakfast on Christmas morning.
- II
A few minutes later.
-
III.i That afternoon.
- III.ii
About 11.00 pm that evening.
|
| |
Characters |
- RONNIE
REID
- PHYLLIS,
his wife
- ANN,
his elder daughter
- CLARIE
- HARDIE
-
TIM, younger son
-
BILL, Ann's husband
-
HARRY MITCHELL
- MISS
TWIGG
- MRS
FARRAWAY
|
| |
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in MS/TS |
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|
| 185 |
Author |
Hastings,
Hugh |
| |
Title |
Inner
Circle |
| |
Date |
1949 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts: Five Scenes |
| |
Setting |
The
dining room and kitchen of a semi-detached house looking out
on to a section of railway track entering a tunnel.
-
I Autumn 1946. Late evening.
-
II.i Two years later. About 8.30 a.m.
-
II.ii The evening. About 11.30 p.m.
- III.i
The following morning, Saturday. About 9.00 p.m.
-
III.ii Saturday evening.
|
| |
Characters |
-
JOY
-
RIKKI
-
BRAD
-
PENN
-
BOBBIE
-
MRS O'FLYNN
|
| |
Cast |
-
Sheila Keith
-
Douglas Rye
-
Roy Purcell
-
Michel Bazalgette
-
Alan Bridges
-
Katharine Page
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Crime;
Law and Justice; Murder |
| |
Published |
Fortune,
London, 1952. |
| |
|
|
| 186 |
Author |
Hastings,
Hugh |
| |
Title |
Red
Dragon |
| |
Date |
1950 |
| |
Length |
Two Acts: Three Scenes |
| |
Setting |
The
store room of a Chinese Merchant in an imaginary town, north-east
of Shanghai and south of the Yangtse river.
-
I Soon after midnight. April 1949.
- II.i
About 7.00 a.m. the next morning.
- II.ii
Just before dawn the next morning.
|
| |
Characters |
-
WU WING LONG
-
LEADING SEAMAN KENDALL
- ABLE SEAMAN "PADDY" O'BRIEN
- ABLE SEAMAN "TUBS" BREWSTER
- STOKER "DINGER" BELL
-
SUB-LIEUT. WOOD, R.M.
-
WU LIN FA
-
CHAN TECK YEE
|
| |
Cast |
-
Robert Sewell
-
Denis Quilley
-
Alan Judd
-
Richard Pearson
-
Basil Lord
-
Richard Beynon
-
Violet Loxley
-
Geoffrey Hibbert
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Military
Life |
| |
Published |
Fortune,
London, 1952. |
| |
|
|
| 187 |
Author |
Hastings,
Hugh |
| |
Title |
Scapa
Flow: A Musical Play (a.k.a. Seagulls Over Sorrento) |
| |
Date |
1950 |
| |
Length |
Three Acts: Seven Scenes |
| |
Setting |
The
mess-deck of a disused wartime naval fortress now converted
into a naval experimental base, on an island not far from
the mainland in Scapa Flow.
- I.i
Early summer, about 11 a.m.
- I.ii
A week later, 7.45 a.m.
-
II.i A few hours later
- II.ii
A week later, 7.30 a.m.
- III.i
The same evening, about 8.50 p.m.
- III.ii
The same evening, about midnight
- III.iii
The following morning, just before 9 a.m.
|
| |
Characters |
- ABLE SEAMAN McINTOSH ("HAGGIS")
- ABLE SEAMAN SIMS ("SPROG")
- ABLE SEAMAN TURNER ("LOFTY")
-
ABLE SEAMAN BADGER
-
PETTY OFFICER HERBERT
-
LT-COMDR REDMOND, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N.
-
SUB-LIEUT. GRANGER, R.N.
- ABLE SEAMAN HUDSON ("RADAR")
- A TELEGRAPHIST ("SPARKS")
|
| |
Cast |
-
Tom Masson
-
Ray Jackson
-
Patrick Barr
-
Basil Lord
-
Peter Williams
-
Bryan Coleman
-
Robert Desmond
-
Anthony Marlowe
-
Anthony Viccars
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Military
Life |
| |
Published |
Samuel
French, London, 1951 |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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|
| 188 |
Author |
Hastings, Hugh |
| |
Title |
Tattoo
Parlour, The |
| |
Date |
1965
(') |
| |
Length |
Two Parts |
| |
Setting |
- I
"Last Call on the Milk Round." The present.
- II
"First Call on Forlough." Five years earlier.
|
| |
Characters |
- BOB
RALSTON
- LINDA
SWEET
- FRANK
SWEET
- MARGARET
MAY
- MRS
PRITCHARD
- TOD
- PAUL
GILCHRIST
- MIKE
- PETE
- MONICA
- MONICA'S
FRIEND
-
SAILOR MICK
- A
STOKER
- BILLY
- SPEED
- TIGER
- CAT'S
EYES
-
WOODY
|
| |
|
|
| 189 |
Author |
Hastings,
Hugh |
| |
Title |
Touch
of the Sun |
| |
Date |
1953
ca |
| |
Length |
Two Acts: Four Scenes |
| |
Setting |
The
living room of Rolf Neumann's bungalow on Juhu Beach near
Bombay, India.
-
I.i A late afternoon in October.
- I.ii
A week earlier. Late afternoon.
-
II.i An hour later.
- II.ii
Continuous action from Act I, Scene i.
|
| |
Characters |
- ROLF
- HELEN
- VAL
- CARLA
- RIDGE
- MANNERS
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Crime;
Infidelity; Law and Justice; Murder; Science |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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|
| 190 |
Author |
Hayball,
Doris |
| |
Title |
At
the Tavern |
| |
Date |
1944 |
| |
Length |
One Act |
| |
Setting |
Outside
"The Tavern". Sydney Cove. |
| |
Characters |
- LADY
ARAMENTA
- BETSY,
her maid
- HER
LOVER, The Ensign
- CORPORAL
- GOVERNOR
- SOLDIERS
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Colonial
Period |
| |
Published |
Opening
Movement: Two Comedies from Australia's Beginnings, Sunsphere
Press, Melbourne, 1944. |
| |
|
|
| 191 |
Author |
Hayball,
Doris |
| |
Title |
Grotesque,
The |
| |
Date |
1932 |
| |
Length |
One
Act |
| |
Setting |
An
attic at night. |
| |
Characters |
- THE
GROTESQUE
-
THE YOUNG LOVER
-
THE GIRL
-
THE GIRL'S FRIEND
-
THE WIFE
-
TWO CHILDREN
|
| |
Cast |
-
John Pickard
-
John Pickard
-
Enid Docherty
-
Brenda Docherty
-
Doris Shave
-
Diana Shave and Penelope Shave
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Money |
| |
Published |
Eight
Plays by Australians, Dramatists' Club, Melbourne, 1934. |
| |
|
|
| 192 |
Author |
Hayball,
Doris |
| |
Title |
In
Canvas Town |
| |
Date |
1944 |
| |
Length |
One Act |
| |
Setting |
Half
a canvas tent. |
| |
Characters |
- JENNIE
- THE
MAN
- ROBERT,
Jennie's husband
-
MIKE
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Bush
Life; Miners and Mining |
| |
Published |
Opening
Movement: Two Comedies from Australia's Beginnings, Sunsphere
Press, Melbourne,1944. |
| |
|
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| 193 |
Author |
Hayball,
Doris |
| |
Title |
Out
Of a Clear Sky |
| |
Date |
1935 |
| |
Length |
One Act |
| |
Setting |
A
roughly furnished kitchen-living-room of a wayback farm in Northern
Victoria. Night time. |
| |
Characters |
-
JIM
-
BESS
-
JAKE (The Stranger)
|
| |
Cast |
-
Neville Malley
-
Joyce Lambert
-
P. Brigenhaw
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Bush
Life; Crime |
| |
Published |
The
Playbill, May 1935. |
| |
|
|
| 194 |
Author |
Haylen,
Leslie |
| |
Title |
Blood
on the Wattle: A Play of the Eureka Stockade |
| |
Date |
1948 |
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Length |
Four Acts |
| |
Setting |
- I.i
A mining camp at Ballarat. Midsummer, 1854.
-
I.ii The exterior of Bentley's Hotel. Early summer.
- I.iii
The same.
- I.iv
The same. Some hours later.
- II.i
The Court House at Ballarat.
-
II.ii The front of the Court House leading into the street.
-
II.iii Bentley's Hotel, as in Act I.
-
II.iv The same.
-
III.i Bakery Hill, another section of the mining camp.
- III.ii
The same. Some hours later.
- III.iii
The study at Government House, Toorak.
- III.iv
A little schoolroom in the Australian bush. Nov.1854.
- IV.i
The Eureka Stockade.
- IV.ii
The same, with the tents torn and burnt and the waggons
overturned.
|
| |
Characters |
- TONY
BLADE, a young miner
- TANSY
BLADE, his wife
- YIMMY
or TEDDY THONEN, A Polish miner, Tony's partner.
- TREEVERS,
a police sergeant
- GATES,
a police trooper
- LEN,
a mentally deficient miner
- CARBONI
RAFFAELLO, an Italian, a miners' leader
- SERVANT,
of Father Smyth's
- PETER
LALOR, a miners' leader
- JOHN
QUINLAN, a miner
- ANTON
LEITZ, an Austrian miner
-
DANIEL SMITH, a miner
- STANLEY
BEARD, a miner
- LARRY
HART, a miner
- BENTLEY,
a publican J
- AMES
SCOBIE, a Scottish miner
- MANNING,
a reporter
-
SIMON SETTATREE, a town crier
-
LOLA MONTEZ, an actress
- A
CHINESE, a vegetable seller
- MARTIN,
a Scottish miner
- FIRST
ORDERLY
- SECOND
ORDERLY
-
POLICE PROSECUTOR
-
DEWES, a police magistrate
- JOHN
HUMFFRAY, Secretary of the Ballarat Reform League
- FATHER
SMYTH, a priest
- AMBROSE
LEEPINGTON, a lawyer
- SEEKAMP,
editor of the Ballarat Times
-
KENNEDY, a miner
- HAYES,
a miners' leader
- MARTY,
an old Irishman
- MOTHER
ROGAN, an old Irishwoman
- CAPTAIN
ROSS, a Canadian
-
PATRICK CURTAIN, Leader of the Irish pikemen
- LEADER
OF WELSH, SCOTS AND ENGLISH DIGGERS
- McGILL,
leader of Californian diggers
- SIR
CHARLES HOTHAM, Governor of Victoria
-
JOHN FOSTER, Chief Secretary
- BATES,
a butler
- STAWELL,
the Attorney-General
- BLACK,
a miners' leader
- LADY
HOTHAM, wife of Sir Charles
- KATIE,
MARY JANE, TOMMY and JACK, school children.
- ALICIA
DUNN, a school teacher
- SHANAHAN,
a miner
- MICHAEL
TUCHEY, Leader of the Creswick Miners
- WILLIAM
BUDDEN, J.P., a Canadian
- A
SPY
- AN
OFFICER
- A
SENIOR OFFICER
- A
SOLDIER
- CARTER,
WILLIS, soldiers
- SOLDIERS,
POLICE, MINERS, WOMEN and CHILDREN
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Ballarat;
Colonial Period; Eureka Stockade; Historical Events or Characters;
Lalor, Peter; Law and Justice; Miners and Mining; Politics and
Ideology |
| |
Published |
Angus
and Robertson, Sydney, 1948. |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
ANL holds a collection of Leslie Haylen papers. |
| |
|
|
| 195 |
Author |
Haylen,
Leslie |
| |
Title |
Two
Minutes' Silence |
| |
Date |
1930 |
| |
Length |
One
Act: Six Scenes |
| |
Setting |
- I.i
A London drawing room.
- I.ii
A London basement.
-
I.iii A bomb-proof shelter in France.
-
I.iv A village in Northern France.
- I.v
An embankment on the edge of a sluggish river.
- I.vi
The same as Act I.
|
| |
Characters |
- GENERAL
DE COURCY LESSUPS GRESTHAM, retired
- MRS
TROTT, a charwoman
-
THE BUTLER, James in the drawing-room, Umpty in scene v
- THE
GOVERNESS, some still call her Denise
- MRS
BREEN, Mrs Trott's friend
- MISS
TREMLETT, another friend
- PTE.
BREEN and PTE. SAMSON, soldiers on leave
- REV.
THOMAS, a clergyman
- AN
OFFICER, Lieut. Lessups
- PTE.
SIMPSON, a runner
- CORPL.
SMITH, staff orderly
- CAPT.
LESSUPS, from the dead
- SOLDIERS
- DESPATCH
RIDER
- GERMAN
TROOPS
- PIERRE,
a French soldier
- THE
CURE, a village priest
- THE
BURGOMASTER
- REV.
MOTHER
-
A NUN, Sister Agatha
- A
NOVICE
- CROWDS,
VILLAGERS, etc.
- JOE,
a dockworker
- TOBY,
his mate
- A
FLOWER-SELLER
- AN
EX-SOLDIER
- A
POLICEMAN
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Military
Life; Returned Servicemen; War; World War I |
| |
Published |
Macquarie
Head Press, Sydney, 1933. Gordon & Gotch, London, 1933. |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
ANL
holds a collection of Leslie Haylen papers. |
| |
|
|
| 196 |
Author |
Hill,
(William) Fitzmaurice |
| |
Title |
Johnny
Fawkner: Apostle of Freedom |
| |
Length |
Three Acts: Six Scenes |
| |
Setting |
- I.i
Bar parlour of the Cornwall Hotel, Launceston, Tasmania.
A winter afternoon in 1834.
- I.ii
The same. Evening. About two hours later.
-
II.i The same. Early afternoon. Mid-June the following year.
- II.ii
The same. Later that night.
-
III.i The young settlement on the Yarra, site of Melbourne
to be. About six weeks later.
- III.ii
The same. Some weeks later.
-
III.iii The same. That evening.
|
| |
Characters |
- JAMES
GILBERT, manservant in Fawkner's employ
-
MARY GILBERT, his wife
- THOMAS
HENTY, ESQ, famous Merino sheepbreeder, late of West Tarring
in Sussex, England
- EDWARD
HENTY, his son and Victoria's first permanent settler (at
Portland Bay)
- JAMES
HENTY, Thomas Henty's eldest son
- ELIZA
FAWKNER, John Fawkner's wife
- JOHN
BATMAN, pioneer of permanent settlement in Port Phillip
and founder of Melbourne
- WILLIAM SAMS, Sheriff of Launceston and member of Batman's
"Port Phillip Association"
- JOHN
PASCOE FAWKNER, self-styled founder of Melbourne
-
CAPTAIN JOHN LANCEY, leader of Fawkner's expediton to the
site of Melbourne
- GEORGE
EVANS, member of Fawkner's party
- AN
ABORIGINAL NATIVE OF PORT PHILLIP
- A
BLACK GIN
- WILLIAM
BUCKLEY, an escaped convict who lived with the blacks for
32 years
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Colonial
Period; Historical Events or Characters; Melbourne; Pioneers |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
NUNE:
Campbell Howard Collection. |
| |
|
|
| 197 |
Author |
Hill, (William) Fitzmaurice |
| |
Title |
Nelson
Expects |
| |
Date |
1933 |
| |
Subject(s) |
Historical
Events or Characters |
| |
|
|
| 198 |
Author |
Hill, (William) Fitzmaurice |
| |
Title |
Operation
Pumpkin |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts |
| |
|
|
| 199 |
Author |
Hiscock,
Betty |
| |
Title |
Spirit
of Desire, The |
| |
Date |
1923 |
| |
Length |
Two
Acts |
| |
Setting |
- I.i
Outside the entrance to the House of Kazz.
- I.ii
The interior of the Maharaja's palace.
-
I.iii The out-station of the British Artillery in Northern
India.
-
II.i The prison in the palace of the Maharaja.
- II.ii
By the side of a lake surrounded by water lilies/The Maharaja's
prison.
-
II.iii The zenana alloted to Nazure in the Maharaja's palace.
-
II.iv The desert outside the city. Sunrise.
|
| |
Characters |
- NAZURE,
foster daughter of Kazz
- KAZZ,
a Indo-Ayrian Doctor
- MAHARAJAH
- ROYALSTON,
an English officer
-
MISS LANE, an English girl
- MARJORIE
ROYALSTON, Royalston's sister
- CAPTAIN
-
ROSCOE, an English officer
- CHORUS
OF GIRLS, CHORUS OF MUSICIANS
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Race
Relations |
| |
Published |
Published
in the Daily Telegraph, April 1923 (Photocopy held in NUNE:
Campbell Howard Collection). |
| |
|
|
| 200 |
Author |
Holt,
Edgar |
| |
Title |
Anzac
Reunion |
| |
Date |
1937 |
| |
Length |
One
Act |
| |
Setting |
Mr
Harrison's study on the night of 25th April. About 8.00 p.m. |
| |
Characters |
- BETTY
HARRISON
-
CLAY HARRISON, her brother
-
FRANK HARRISON, their father
-
HARRY, BUNNY, ARTHUR and DICK, the visitors
|
| |
Subject(s) |
Anzac
Legend; Fantasy; Paranormal and Spiritual; Returned Servicemen;
War; World War I |
| |
Published |
Best
Australian One-Act Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1937. |