The One Day of the Year

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Event The One Day of the Year
Venue Pocket Playhouse, Sydenham, NSW
First Date 10 January 1964
Opening Date 10 January 1964
Last Date 18 January 1964
Dates Estimated No
Status Amateur
World Premiere No
Description About the Cook family and their friend Wacka, a Gallipoli veteran. Alf Cook is also a returned serviceman and can only relate positively to his identity as a soldier on one day of the year - ANZAC Day. A university student, Hughie Cook, helps his girlfriend Jan write an article criticising Anzac Day, which upsets his ex-serviceman father, Alf. The play was inspired by an article in the University of Sydney newspaper Honi Soit criticising Anzac Day and Seymour's own observations of how ex-servicemen behaved on that day. The character of Alf was based on Seymo
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Subjects Anzac
Australian National Identity
Family
War memorials
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Allan Penney Director
Alan Seymour Playwright
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Australian Drama Project (UQ) Key ONEDAYOAS
Newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 1964, 10
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 115380