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The Neighbours is a 1945 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was one of Turner's most highly regarded plays.[2] He based it on the town of Geraldton, where Turner had lived.[3]
Genre | drama play |
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Running time | 60 mins (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm) |
Country of origin | Australia |
Language(s) | English |
Written by | Alexander Turner |
Directed by | John Cairns |
Original release | 8 March 1945[1] |
The play came equal first in a 1944 ABC playwriting competition (along with Safe Horizon by Jon Cleary), out of 234 entries.[4]
Reviewing the play, Leslie Rees wrote "no writer has so specifically and sharply caught the peculiar glint of Westralian light as Turner."[5]
A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland.[6]
The breaking up of a family during the evacuation from Geraldton in 1942.
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