Written by Oriel Gray Original language English Playwright Oriel Gray | Date premiered 1955 First performance 1955 Genre Melodrama | |
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The Torrents is a 1955 Australian play about an attempt to bring irrigation to a former gold mining town.
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In 1955 it was voted best play that year by the Playwrights' Advisory Board, alongside Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
1956 Radio Adaptation
It was adapted for radio by the ABC in 1956.
1969 TV Adaptation
It was filmed for TV in 1969 as part of the ABC anthology drama series Australian Plays. The production starred Barbara Stephens, Ken Shorter and Alan Hopgood.
Musical Adaptation
It was also adapted into the musical A Bit o' Petticoat.
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