Name Louis Esson | Role Poet | |
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Died November 27, 1943, Sydney, Australia Books The Time is Not Yet Ripe, Bells and Bees: Verses, Dead Timber and Other Plays, The Drovers, Ballades of Old Bohemia | ||
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Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson (10 August 1878 – 27 November 1943) was an Australian poet, journalist, critic and playwright.
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He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but moved to Melbourne, Australia when he was three. He attended the University of Melbourne and began working as a journalist and playwright soon after.
In the 1920s he was a co-founder of the Pioneer Players, a theatre company dedicated to the performance of Australian plays and the development of a national theatre. The Pioneer Players produced 18 new Australian plays in their four years of existence. The Pioneer Players have been called "a mismanaged collection of fly-by-night amateurs, but somehow he has come to be called 'The Father of Australian drama'".
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