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1955 play by Eunice Hanger From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flood is a 1955 Australian play by Eunice Hanger. It was one of her best known works.[1]
Flood | |
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Written by | Eunice Hanger |
Date premiered | 18 October 1955 |
Place premiered | Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane |
Original language | English |
Genre | verse drama |
Setting | A small Queensland country town |
The play was runner up in the famous 1955 playwriting competition run by the Playwrights' Advisory Board which was won by Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and The Torrents.[2]
The Bulletin said "The play is at its best when it is documentary. Eunice Hanger is not afraid to organise the gathering into yerse-speaking groups in order to comment on the increasing danger and to visualise the havoc wrought in the town... With judicious pruning there is a good play here —a genuine outcrop in Queensland soil, enriching the whole Australian field."[3]
The play was adapted for ABC radio in 1956 by Catherine Shepherd.[4][5]
A family is threatened by rising flood waters in a small Queensland country town.Janie Morrison, the daughter of a country school-teacher, is engaged to be married to a young doctor, Eric Mulray, but a few years earlier Eric was partly responsible for the accident that made a semi-cripple of Janie's brother. This and other dramas are brought out in the flood.
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