We're Going Through
| Genre | play drama |
|---|---|
| Running time | 60 mins (10:00 pm – 11:00 pm) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Written by | T. Inglis Moore |
| Directed by | Lawrence Cecil[1] |
| Original release | 27 May 1943 |
We're Going Through is a 1943 radio verse play by T. Inglis Moore about the Australian troops during the Malayan Campaign in World War Two, specifically the battle at Bakri and Parit Sulong.[2][3]
It was one of a number of radio verse plays the ABC produced in the wake of the success of Fire on the Snow.[4] The ABC held a competition for verse plays and We're Going Through was commended by judges.[5] It was originally broadcast as one of a series of these verse plays in 1943.[6]
The play was performed again a number of times on radio, including in 1944.[7]
It was published in 1945 with a foreword by Gordon Bennett.[8] According to The Bulletin, "Moore has done well to set down this plain truth about Chris —and the nature of poets —that he is a man like other men. But there are also times when a poet is not a man like other men... A poet, as Inglis Moore should know, is interested in his poetry. And of this side of Chris’s character the play says nothing at all. We’re Going Through is not, then, a drama of character."[9]
Angry Penguins said "A radio verse play hamstrung by all the artificialities and stylisations of 'radio technique'. Innumerable fade-ins and fade-outs lead from episodic drama to flash-back rhetoric. Not much characterisation. Mainly stock types. Sincere treatment."[10]
According to Leslie Rees, "although there is sensitive and vivid writing, the dominant character of the play is that of manliness, forthright feeling and mateship in face of deadly danger, a paean to the Diggers."[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Thursday, May 27", ABC Weekly, 5 (21), Sydney, 22 May 1943, retrieved 3 November 2023 – via Trove
- ^ "RadioPlay". Western Mail (Western Australia). Vol. 60, no. 3, 096. Western Australia. 13 July 1945. p. 22. Retrieved 2 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Moore, T. Inglis (Tom Inglis,); Mant, Gilbert. Grim glory; Australia. Australian Army. Australian Imperial Force (1939-1945) (1945), We're going through : a radio verse play of the A.I.F., Angus and Robertson, retrieved 2 September 2023
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Page 102 of Kenneth Stanley Inglis; Brazier, Jan (1983), This is the ABC the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1932-1983, Carlton, Vic Melbourne University Press, ISBN 978-0-522-84258-6
- ^ "Romantic Comedy In Verse", ABC Weekly, 5 (4), Sydney, 23 January 1943, retrieved 3 November 2023 – via Trove
- ^ "Ten new verse plays", ABC Weekly, 5 (12), Sydney, 20 March 1943, retrieved 3 November 2023 – via Trove
- ^ "No title", ABC Weekly, 6 (4), Sydney, 22 January 1944, retrieved 3 November 2023 – via Trove
- ^ "_ Verse Play On War In The Jungle". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. 88, no. 27070. South Australia. 7 July 1945. p. 4. Retrieved 2 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Play About Malaya", The Bulletin, 66 (3415), Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 25 Jul 1945, retrieved 3 November 2023 – via Trove
- ^ Harris, Max.; Reed, John.; Kerr, D. B.; University of Adelaide. Arts Association., "The Current Literary Scene", Angry Penguins (1945), Adelaide University Arts Association, retrieved 3 November 2023 – via Trove
- ^ "Drama Chronicle", Meanjin Papers, 4 (3), Brisbane: C. Christesen, Spring 1945, retrieved 2 September 2023 – via Trove