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353	Author	Seymour, Alan
	Title	Swamp Creatures
	Date	1955
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	A large, hall-like downstairs room looking out on a verandah in what was once a beautiful home built by prosperous people some time before the end of the last century. It stands in a now isolated part, a dark and fertile part, of the Australian bush. The play is set a little before the mid-twentieth century.
	Characters	AMY, a delicate woman of middle age CONSTANCE, her sister, a few years older and mistress of the house. CHRISTIAN, Amy's son, who is twenty-five MR FALL, who works for Constance MRS FALL, his wife.
	Subject(s)	Science
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection.

354	Author	Shave, Lionel
	Title	Red and Gold
	Date	1948
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The interior of a bush shanty on the road to the diggings. 1865.
	Characters	THE SHANTY-KEEPER THE FOSSICKER THE NEW CHUM THE COACH-DRIVER THE TROOPER
	Subject(s)	Bush Life; Miners and Mining
	Published	Five Proven One-Act Plays, Australasian Publishing Co, Sydney, 1948.

355	Author	Shave, Lionel
	Title	Resignation of Mr Bagsworth, The
	Date	1948
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A cafe.
	Characters	ROBERT CRAMSTON, a young company promoter BERTRAM BAGSWORTH, a bank official WINNIE, a waitress FIRST DINER, an uninspiring person of middle age SECOND and THIRD DINERS, probably in the Government service FOURTH DINER, one of those bright, complacent people
	Published	Five Proven One-Act Plays, Australasian Publishing Co, Sydney, 1948.

356	Author	Shave, Lionel
	Title	Sirius Cove, A
	Date	1935
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A lounge-vestibule in Mrs Pilcarrow-Browne's Bellevue Hill home. The Present.
	Characters	MERCIA PILCARROW-BROWNE, daughter of MRS PILCARROW-BROWNE, a very superior person MAID JOSIAH PILCARROW, a person of the early 19th century JOHN FORTESCUE, a successful business man
	Cast	Valerie Shave Viola Wilding Jean Wedderspoon James Storey C. Harding Brown
	Subject(s)	Social Status
	Published	Five Proven One-Act Plays, Australasian Publishing Co, 1948.

357	Author	Shave, Lionel
	Title	That's Murder: A Mystery Comedy in One Act (a.k.a. Exit John Barcombe)
	Date	1935
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A living room in John Barcombe's flat.
	Characters	EMMALINE, a service maid in a flat building MRS BARCOMBE, a self-possessed person of thirty-five MARY ASTONBURY, an attractive brunette DETECTIVE-SERGEANT DIGBY, Criminal Investigations Dept. A brusque, intelligent officer. DETECTIVE CALLAGHAN, Criminal Investigations Dept.
	Cast	Jean Wotherspoon Muriel Steinbeck Zelma Newton-Tabrett Brendan Clark Alex Boden
	Subject(s)	Murder
	Published	Six Australian One Act Plays, Mulga Publications, Sydney, 1944. Five Proven One-Act Plays, Australasian Publishing Co, 1948.

358	Author	Shave, Lionel
	Title	Twelve Moons Cold
	Date	1940
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A converted flat within gunshot of Kings Cross. An afternoon.
	Characters	MA, a blowsy, middle-aged person SALLY WILSON, her daughter FRED WILSON, Sally's husband DETECTIVE BOGAN
	Subject(s)	Crime
	Published	Five Proven One-Act Plays, Australasian Publishing Co, Sydney,1948.

359	Author	Shepherd, Catherine
	Title	Daybreak: A Play in Three Acts
	Date	1938
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	The parlour of Simon Martel's house in Hobart Town. 1830. I.i Morning of a spring day. I.ii A few days later. Evening. II.i Some weeks later. Late afternoon. II.ii A fortnight later. Night. III Christmas Eve.
	Characters	SIMON MARTEL CAROLINE MARTEL JEANNE MARTEL FRANCIS GILLAN MRS CARMICHAEL PHOEBE MOON RUFUS BELLAMY CAPTAIN NORTH CAPTAIN BLAINEY LIEUTENANT PRIDEAUX MRS MOSS LAURA MOSS MRS TURNER SARAH TURNER LUCY TURNER ELLEN BEAM MRS BEAM
	Cast	James Pratt Peggy Waterworth Junee Cornell Henry Moore Pearl Burbury Beatrice Jordan Mervyn Wiss K.W. Nicholson Jack Mitchell Noel Richard Audry St Hill Erica Gilbert Dulce Haddon-Cave Nancy Chapman Phyl Bailey Mrs W.F. Hinman Don Sutherland Mrs Alan Burn
	Subject(s)	Colonial Period; Convicts
	Published	Melbourne University Press, 1942 (2nd ed 1946).

360	Author	Shepherd, Catherine
	Title	Delphiniums
	Date	1943
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A room at the back of a house in an Australian town. It is the afternoon of a wintry day, and the light is dull.
	Characters	QUEENIE BURTON ED BURTON MRS CORBY GLADDIE MR WEBSTER
	Cast	Beatrice Jordan Stanley Burbury Dagmar Goddard Pearl Burbury Evelyn Ward
	Subject(s)	Domestic Life
	Published	Six Australian One Act Plays, Mulga Publications, Sydney, 1944.

361	Author	Shepherd, Catherine
	Title	It Rains on the Road: A One Act Play
	Length	One Act
	Setting	Outside the Winger's tent on the showground of an Australian country town.
	Characters	STEVE WINGER FRED WINGER, Steve's father, in the Show business DAISY WINGER, Steve's mother, in the Show business MRS LICK, also in the Show business SHIRLEY LICK DAVE, an old man with an icecream stall FLO COOIGAN, "Wingers' Wonder Woman"
	Subject(s)	Work and Business
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

362	Author	Shepherd, Catherine
	Title	Jane, My Love (a.k.a. The Franklins of Hobart Town)
	Date	1951
	Length	Three Acts: Six Scenes
	Setting	A room in Government House, Hobart Town. I.i A summer morning early in 1838. I.ii A few months later. Evening. II.i A ball at Government House. Towards the end of 1840. II.ii A year later. Afternoon. II.iii January 1842. III A year later.
	Characters	ELEANOR FRANKLIN, Sir John's daughter CAPTAIN ALEXANDER MacONOCHIE MARY FRANKLIN, Sir John's niece MRS MacONOCHIE SOPHY CRACROFT, Sir John's niece MR HENRY ELLIOTT, aide-de-camp JOSEPH HODDER, a country lad LADY FRANKLIN MISS WILLIAMSON, Eleanor's governess SIR JOHN FRANKLIN MR JOHN MONTAGU MR MATTHEW FORSTER JOHN HEPBURN, major domo at Government House. COUNT PAUL STRZELECKI MR PRICE REV. J. P. GELL TOM CRACROFT MR FOXLEY MISS HAYTER MRS BARTON MISS CLANDIKE MRS DOWBIGGIN
	Subject(s)	Colonial Period; Convicts; Historical Events or Characters ; Politics and Ideology
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

363	Author	Shepherd, Martin
	Title	Ali the Cobbler: An Arabian Comedy in One Act
	Date	1935
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The interior of Ali's shop, Baghdad, in the period of the Arabian Nights.
	Characters	ALI, a cobbler SAID, his brother, a farrash or house-servant FATIMA, Ali's shrewish wife MUSTAPHA, Fatima's cousin
	Subject(s)	Family Relations
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

364	Author	Simpson, Helen de Guerry
	Title	Man of his Time, A: A Play in Four Acts
	Date	1923
	Length	Four Acts, Prologue and Epilogue
	Setting	The action passes in Ferrara and Rome, during the year 1537. Prologue: Ferrara. An underground room I Rome. The Square of the Banchi II Rome. An antechamber in the Vatican III Rome. The Castle of St Angelo IV Rome. Beatrice's house Epilogue: Ferrara. The underground room of the Prologue
	Characters	BENVENUTO CELLINI, a Florentine artist AVERARDO, an astrologer CECCHINO, his boy ANGELICA, a courtezan BEATRICE, her mother ASCANIO, boy to Cellini ANTONIO BACHIACCA, FREDERIGO GINORI and GIULIANO] BUGIARDINI, friends of Cellini PANTASILEA, GIULIA, PAULA, courtezans A CUSTOMER POPE PAUL III PIER LUIGI FARNESE, his son, the Duke of Castro CARDINAL CORNARO GIORGIO UGOLINI, Constable of the Castle of St Angelo PEDIGNONE and BOZZA, gaolers FATHER PALLAVICINI, a Dominican monk CRISPINO, Captain in the Papal Guard MEN-AT-ARMS, SERVING BOYS, MUSICIANS, PAGES
	Subject(s)	Art and Artists; Historical Events or Characters; Verse Drama
	Published	Angus and Robertson, Sydney,1923

365	Author	Simpson, Helen De Guerry
	Title	Pan In Pimlico
	Date	1923
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A deserted street in Pimlico. 11.00 pm.
	Characters	HOB DICKON VIOLET BERT A POLICEMAN (Non-Speaking Part)
	Subject(s)	Mythology
	Published	British Drama League: Four One-Act Plays, Oxford University Press, London, 1923. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1926.

366	Author	Sims, Gloria M.
	Title	Eleventh Hour, The
	Date	1931
	Length	One Act
	Subject(s)	Marriage

367	Author	Spriggins, Florence
	Title	Silver Stars of Freedom, The
	Date	1936
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The living-room of the Byrne home in Ballarat. Sunday evening, December 3, 1854 (Eureka Stockade Day).
	Characters	MICHAEL BYRNE MARY BYRNE, his wife MRS BYRNE, his mother PETER LALOR JIMMY SPENCER MASON WILSON JANEY CAPTAIN THOMAS OFFICER TWO SOLDIERS
	Subject(s)	Ballarat; Colonial Period; Eureka Stockade; Historical Events or Characters; Lalor, Peter; Law and Justice; Miners and Mining
	Published	Five Plays by Australians, Dramatists' Club, Melbourne, 1936.

368	Author	Springthorpe, J.W. ("A Digger")
	Title	War's Awakenings, Wise and Otherwise: A Tragedy in a Prologue, Three Acts and an Epilogue
	Date	1932
	Length	Three Acts, Prologue and Epilogue
	Setting	I Special Duty in France. II Special Hospital in England. III Letters Home (Victoria).
	Characters	"Characters" too many to list "and in any case all types."
	Subject(s)	Anzac Legend; Military Life; Returned Servicemen; War; World War I
	Published	The Author, Melbourne, 1932.

369	Author	Stewart, Douglas
	Title	Fire On The Snow, The
	Date	1941
	Length	Continuous Scene
	Setting	Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition, McMurdo Sound on the Antarctic Continent. From 4 January to 29 March 1912.
	Characters	SCOTT WILSON OATES BOWERS EVANS ANNOUNCER
	Cast	Frank Harvey John Tate Lou Vernon Peter Bathurst John Alden Ida Osbourne
	Subject(s)	Antarctica; Historical Events or Characters; Scott, Robert; Verse Drama
	Published	Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1944 (new ed 1954; first illustrated ed 1964). The Fire On The Snow and The Golden Lover, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1944 (new edition with introduction 1962). Five Radio Plays, ed. A. Phillips, Longmans, Green and Co, Melbourne, 1949. Four Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1958. Plays For Radio and Television, ed. N. Samuel, Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1959.

370	Author	Stewart, Douglas
	Title	Golden Lover, The; A Comedy in Verse
	Date	1943
	Length	Seven Scenes
	Characters	TAWHAI, a young Maori woman RUARANGI, her husband WERA, her mother NUKUROA, her father KOURA, an old woman TIKI, a youth in love with Tawhai RAUIKA TEINA TE KAWAU, the tohunga, or witch-doctor WHANA, the golden lover, a man of the faery "People of the Mist". WOMEN, WARRIORS and NUKURA'S DOG
	Cast	Cast of the A.B.C. first broadCast is given in Alrene Syke, Five Plays for Stage, Radio and Television, University of Queensland Press, 1979.
	Subject(s)	Race Relations; Verse Drama
	Published	The Fire On The Snow and The Golden Lover, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1944 (new edition with introduction 1962). Four Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1958. Five Plays for Stage, Radio and Television, ed A. Sykes, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1977.
	Held in MS/TS	QU: Hanger Collection.

371	Author	Stewart, Douglas
	Title	Ned Kelly
	Date	1942
	Length	Four Acts: Eight Scenes
	Setting	I.i The bank at Jerilderie. Monday morning, 11 February 1879. I.ii The bar of the Royal Hotel, Jerilderie. II A hut in the ranges on a night in June 1880, a year and four months after the raid on Jerilderie. III.i The kitchen of Aaron Sherritt's hut. The same night. III.ii The railway embankment near Glenrowan. The same night. IV.i The bar of Mrs Jones' hotel at Glenrowan. Late the following night. IV.ii The same. Later. IV.iii A clearing in the bush outside the hotel. Daybreak.
	Characters	NED KELLY DAN KELLY, Ned's brother and a member of the gang JOE BYRNE, a member of the Kelly gang STEVE HART, a member of the Kelly gang LIVING, a clerk in the bank at Jerilderie MACKIN, a clerk in the bank at Jerilderie TARLETON, bank manager ELLIOTT, Jerilderie schoolmaster THE REV. GRIBBLE BRETT, a squatter COX, a hotel-keeper RANKIN, a merchant HARKIN, a store-keeper THE ROO, Ned Kelly's mistress AARON SHERRITT, an informer RITA SHERRITT, his wife MRS BARRY, Rita's mohter REARDON, a railwayman MRS JONES, proprietoress of the Glenrowan Hotel JACK JONES, her son CURNOW, Glenrowan schoolteacher MRS CURNOW, his wife POLICE, BARMAIDS, SUPPORTERS and PRISONERS OF THE KELLY GANG
	Subject(s)	Bushrangers; Crime; Historical Events or Characters; Law and Justice; Kelly, Ned; Verse Drama
	Published	Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1943. Shepherd Press, Sydney, 1946. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1956 (acting ed.) Four Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1958. Three Australian Plays, ed. H.G. Kippax, Penguin, 1963.

372	Author	Stewart, Douglas
	Title	Shipwreck
	Date	1944-45
	Length	Three Acts: Seven Scenes
	Setting	I.i The interior of a large tent. One of the islands off the West Coast of Australia, known today as Pelsart's Abrolhos. 1629. I.ii The same. A week later. Night. II.i The same. Later the same night. II.ii The same. Twelve days later. Evening. III.i The same. Evening. III.ii The same. Noon the next day. III.iii The same. Three days later. Afternoon.
	Characters	FRANCIS PELSART, Commodore aboard the ship Batavia GODWYN VAN MYLEN, a merchant LUCRETIA, his wife SEBASTIAN, a minister JUDITH, his daughter HEYNORICK, butler to the Commodore JAN VAN APELDOORN, a ship's officer WEBBY HAYS, corporal CATHERINE FREDRICKS ANNIE HERDERS MARY LOWISSON ROSE HARMAN CORNELIUS, Supercargo; later captain-general of mutineers CONRAD HUYSSEN, soldier; mutineer DAVID SEEVANCK, seaman; mutineer SOLDIERS, SEAMEN, SHIP'S PASSENGERS, A BLACK CAT
	Subject(s)	Historical Events or Characters; Murder; Verse Drama
	Published	Shepherd Press, Sydney, 1947. Four Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1958.

373	Author	Stone, Louis
	Title	Lap of the Gods, The
	Date	1915 ca
	Length	Three Acts: Prologue and Epilogue
	Setting	Prologue: Wayside near Mount Olympus. I Drawing room at Arlington Square. II Library and Terrace at Tetley. III Drawing room at Arlington Square. Epilogue: Wayside near Mount Olympus.
	Characters	SIR JOHN PURCHASE, M.P. NUGENT PURCHASE CARTER PURCHASE AGATHA PURCHASE NANCY PURCHASE MRS FORRESTER MR SARADOPOULOS LESLIE COPELAND HILMA PASHA JOPLING PUNCHEON
	Subject(s)	Fantasy; Mythology
	Published	Published in the Daily Telegraph, May 1923.
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection (photocopy of Daily Telegraph, May 1923).

374	Author	Stone, Walter
	Title	Eyes that See
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The living room of a small cottage off the beaten track.
	Characters	RUTH, a woman in her late thirties SAM, elderly and blind RONALD and MABEL, a young couple
	Subject(s)	Family Relations; Marriage; Murder
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection.

375	Author	Stone, Walter
	Title	Queen's Bounty
	Length	One Act
	Setting	Interior of a cave on the banks of the Wollondilly River. 1837.
	Characters	RED PAYNE TIM SMITH JIM MARTIN ALLEN BATES
	Subject(s)	Colonial Period; Convicts; Law and Justice
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection.

376	Author	Stone, Walter
	Title	Red Rations
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The living room of James Cain's cottage on Brickfield Hill. Sydney, 1828.
	Characters	JAMES CAIN, ex-convict, a product of the worst period of penalism-brutal, bitter and callous MILLIE, his daughter, a currency lass CAPT. LAWSON, Officer in the 57th Regiment, officious, inclined to be kind and humane as far as soldierly duty permits GEORGE PORSON, a simple lad, soldier in the 57th Regiment ROSE REILLY, ex-inmate of the Parramatta factory, who plies her trade on the waterfront
	Subject(s)	Colonial Period; Convicts; Law and Justice
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection.

377	Author	Stone, Walter
	Title	Sheridan's Shanty
	Length	One Act
	Setting	An old hut on the Sydney Road. Everything in the hut is squalid and primitive.
	Characters	SHERIDAN MARTIN NELSON O'NEIL HARPER BRAY
	Subject(s)	Convicts; Murder
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection.

378	Author	Stone, Walter
	Title	Whip, The
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The interior of a one-roomed hut situated on the road to Newtown in the early forties of the last century.
	Characters	MRS MARTIN COPPLE NORRIS
	Subject(s)	Convicts; Moral Degeneration
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. QU: Hanger Collection.

379	Author	Symons, Alex
	Title	Believe It or Not: An Extravagent Comedy
	Date	1955
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	The sitting room of a boarding house at a seaside town. I Late evening in summer. II The same evening. III.i An afternoon, six months later. III.ii That evening.
	Characters	SAM ROSPINGLE, a magician IRENE ROSPINGLE, his wife MAX ROSPINGLE, his brother JOYCE ROSPINGLE, his sister-in-law HERBERT HINE, his agent LOVETTA, his professional assistant MRS PARKER, his landlady A POLICEMAN MR AUBURN
	Cast	Ray Wheeler Sylvia Blakeway Bryan Glennon Kathleen Tegart Bon Maguire Jennifer Warhurst Pat Merritt Cecil Merritt
	Subject(s)	Fantasy; Paranormal and Spiritual; Politics and Ideology; Public Life; Social Status; Theatre Life
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

380	Author	Symons, Alex
	Title	Fireworks in the Morning
	Date	1953
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	A room in the tower of the Castle of Rondomark. I An evening in spring in the 1930s. II Late the following evening and early the next morning. III Later the same morning.
	Characters	MISS ALDWINCKEL JOSEF HOKSA GALERIAN ARNOLD BRIKSIUS FLORENTINE PAUL DE KERNINCK, Count of Rondomark JONATHAN YELLOWLEES MADDALENA JOHAN IV
	Cast	Betty Myers Terence McDermott Alan Lane Gordon Troup Sylvia Blakeway Mark Anders Brian Forrest Anne Haddy Sydney Downie
	Subject(s)	Politics and Ideology
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

381	Author	Symons, Alex
	Title	Sigismond: An Unromantic Comedy
	Date	1927
	Length	Four Acts
	Setting	I Aubrey Wyard's flat in London. Morning. II A room in Lord Dallow's country place. The same evening. III Wyard's bedroom at Dallow Court. The same night. IV Breakfast room at Dallow Court. The next morning.
	Characters	MR PETERS PENN JOSEPHINE DANKS AUBREY WYARD LORD DALLOW COLONEL LAVENTINE PROFESSOR DURN GENERAL ZYBYRZYDOWSKI LADY DALLOW COUNTESS TILKA COUNT TILKA FOOTMAN
	Subject(s)	Politics and Ideology
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection.

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