Best Australian One-Act Plays
| Country | Australia |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | plays |
| Genre | playwriting |
| Published | Sydney |
| Publisher | Angus & Robertson |
Publication date | 1937 |
| Pages | 406 |
Best Australian One-Act Plays is a 1937 collection of Australian one-act plays. It was published at a time when Australian playwriting was relatively rare. Twenty one plays were selected out of 200 by William Moore and T. Inglis Moore.[1][2][3][4][5]
The Sydney Morning Herald called it an "important volume" and the plays "natural, sincere, and dramatically effective. They make pleasant reading, and should pave the way to an annual collection.'[6]
Selected plays[edit]
- Ancestors by Vance Palmer
- Andeganora by Louis Esson
- Anzac reunion by Edgar Holt
- At dusk by Millicent Armstrong
- Dampier's Ghost by Henrietta Drake-Brockman
- Easter by Dulcie Deamer
- The fourposter by Dora Wilcox
- Garden Fantasia by John Wheeler
- Gib It 'Tshillin' by Montague Grover
- Hester Siding by Alexander Turner
- Morning by Betty Roland
- Murder in the Silo by Edmund Barclay
- No Family by Miles Franklin
- Pioneers by Katherine Susannah Prichard
- The Rustling of Voices by Lloyd Ross
- Searchlights by Sydney Tomholt
- Sending Grannie Off by Morris Hay Simpson
- Stampede by Bernard Cronin
- The Sub-Editor's Room by Leslie Rees
- The trap by Stewart Macky
- Variations on a Printing Press by Charles Porter
References[edit]
- ^ "Australian Drama". The Sun. No. 1798. New South Wales, Australia. 12 September 1937. p. 12 (Magazine). Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "A Volume of Plays". The West Australian. Vol. 53, no. 15, 983. Western Australia. 18 September 1937. p. 4. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "BOOK REVIEWS". Truth. No. 2490. New South Wales, Australia. 26 September 1937. p. 31. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "ONE ACT PLAYS BY AUSTRALIANS". The Herald. No. 18, 821. Victoria, Australia. 11 September 1937. p. 36. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Our Native Drama". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 27 November 1937. p. 10. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "AUSTRALIAN DRAMA". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 31, 093. New South Wales, Australia. 28 August 1937. p. 12. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
External links[edit]
- Best Australian One Act Plays at AustLit