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 | Kathleen Carroll |
Original release | June 16, 1946 |
Small Town is a 1946 Australian radio play by Kathleen Carroll. It won a £50 prize as one of the two runners-up in the Lux Radio Theatre Play Competition. She was inspired to write it after visiting an old mining town. [1]
The play was one of the most regarded Australian radio plays of the 1940s. [2]
The Sydney Tribune said "It is to be hoped that this play will be heard again soon." [3]
The play was produced again in 1952 by the ABC. [4] [5] One listener of this production felt the script was "brutally massacred from beginning to end. With the exception of a few minor characters... the performances were obviously amateurish and distinctly bad, lacking in all conviction. The production was also amateurish and distinctly bad." [6]
A doctor's wife, Gay, longs to escape the small mining town of Brampton. Her husband helps out during a mining disaster. [7]
Genre | drama play |
---|---|
Running time | 60 mins (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm) |
Country of origin | Australia |
Language(s) | English |
Written by | Kathleen Carroll |
Original release | June 16, 1946 |
Small Town is a 1946 Australian radio play by Kathleen Carroll. It won a £50 prize as one of the two runners-up in the Lux Radio Theatre Play Competition. She was inspired to write it after visiting an old mining town. [1]
The play was one of the most regarded Australian radio plays of the 1940s. [2]
The Sydney Tribune said "It is to be hoped that this play will be heard again soon." [3]
The play was produced again in 1952 by the ABC. [4] [5] One listener of this production felt the script was "brutally massacred from beginning to end. With the exception of a few minor characters... the performances were obviously amateurish and distinctly bad, lacking in all conviction. The production was also amateurish and distinctly bad." [6]
A doctor's wife, Gay, longs to escape the small mining town of Brampton. Her husband helps out during a mining disaster. [7]