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  • Kelen
  • Kelly, Philip. see Ashworth, Arthur and Kelly, Philip
  • Kelly, T. see Tennant, Carrie

218 Author Kelen, Stephen
  Title Fission in the Ointment; A Tragifarce in One Act
  Length One Act
  Setting The luxurious dining room of an ultra-modern cottage in a big city's fashionable suburb. Evening.
  Characters
  • ELVIRA
  • BERT
  • TOM
  Subject(s) Nuclear Threat; Science
  Held in MS/TS QU: Hanger Collection.
     
219 Author Kelen, Stephen
  Title Intruders, The
  Date One Act
  Length The Johnson's lounge room.
  Characters
  • MARK JOHNSON, celebrating his 55th birthday
  • ALICE, his wife, is about five years younger
  • PETER, their son in his twenties
  • LILI, Peter's wife, about the same age, a migrant and speaks with a light accent.
  • COLONEL ALEC HARTLEY, retired but still works for the government. In his fifties
  • THE VOICE OF THE ANNOUNCER
  • THE VOICE OF ROGER SMITH, Minister for Immigration
  • THE VOICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER
  Subject(s) Migrants; Politics and Ideology; Race Relations
  Held in MS/TS QU: Hanger Collection, a roneo copy produced by Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Sydney.
     
220 Author Kelen, Stephen
  Title Little Black Girl Step Over the Bar
  Length One Act
  Setting The sitting room of Dr Adam Blackman's cottage in the "coloured quarter" of a city in the U.S. South. The room is furnished with the quiet good taste of a cultured middle class family; spotlessly clean, contemporary.
  Characters
  • CHRISTABEL, about six
  • DR ADAM BLACKMAN, her father
  • MARY BLACKMAN, her mother
  • PASTOR JOSUA FRAZER, Mary's father
  • CANAGE FRAZER, Mary's brother
  Subject(s) Assimilation; Race Relations; Social Status
  Held in MS/TS QU: Hanger Collection.
     
221 Author Kelen, Stephen
  Title Sun Shines Black in the Valley, The
  Date 1961
  Length One Act
  Setting The kitchen of an isolated dwelling of a pioneer farming family back in the days of transportation.
  Characters
  • THE FATHER
  • THE MOTHER
  • LUCY, the blind girl
  • JOHN, the son of the house
  • THE STRANGER, an escaped convict
  • THE SERGEANT
  • THE TROOPER
  Subject(s) Colonial Period; Convicts; Pioneers
  Held in MS/TS NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection.