Date premiered 1950 Genre melodrama First performance 1950 | Original language English Setting rural Queensland Playwright W. P. Lipscomb | |
Written by W. P. Lipscomb
John Watson | ||
Plot
An Englishman arrives in Australia and works on a station.
Production
The play was written by W. P. Lipscomb and John Watson in the late 1940s. Lipscomb was a British screenwriter who had written several screenplays set in Australia, including Bitter Springs. The two of them met in London in 1948 and decided to collaborate.
Peter Finch was originally attached as director for its original English production but eventually pulled out. The cast included Bill Kerr and Ronald Howard and the production ran for six weeks touring through England. It did not come to London.
Despite the play's success in England, author John Watson said there was a reluctance from Australian theatre managements to put on the play in Australia. It was eventually produced in Sydney and Melbourne in 1954.