Sons of the Morning

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Event Sons of the Morning
Venue Albert Hall, Brisbane, QLD
First Date 22 November 1945
Opening Date 22 November 1945
Last Date 23 November 1945
Dates Estimated Yes
Status Amateur
World Premiere No
Description Duncan's Sons of the morning is her best known dramatic work marking an interest in the position of Australian identity within an international realm. Angela O'Brien explains how the play works:
Two Australian soldiers, veteran Major Ansen and Sergeant David Blake, spend a night in the farmhouse of Christos Velenzas, a partisan guerilla, and his daughter Christina: also there is Noulos, Christina's betrothed, a merchant who has co-operated with the German invaders. Velenzas captures a young German paratrooper whom he brings back to the house. In the 12 hours action of the play Christina and David fall in love, and the two AIF men recognise their own peculiarly Australian problems – for Ansen, disillusionment after the last war and for David Blake, a militant 'belief in the future of our country'.
In an interview Duncan said that she designed the play as a contrast between an ancient culture and a youthful Australian culture. Both cultures are represented by traditional pragmatists who have lost hope in the future as well as the figures of Velezas and Blake who are the Sons of the Morning in their hope for the future free from fascism.
Sons of the Morning was first performed at New Theatre, Melbourne 21st April 1945.
Description Source Advertisement
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Subjects Australian National Identity
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Catherine Duncan Playwright
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Newspaper
Event Identifier 110539
Dataset AusStage