Bury the Dead

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Event Bury the Dead
Venue New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, NSW
First Date 25 September 1937
Last Date 29 September 1937
Dates Estimated No
Status Pro-Am
World Premiere No
Description Written by Irwin Shaw. An anti-war play about six soldiers killed in a military uprising.

Place: Behind the Lines in the War that is to begin tomorrow, and in other various parts of America.
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Subjects War
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Victor Arnold Actor 5th Corpse (Levy)
Jack Barker Actor 2nd Soldier
Jean Blue Actor Martha Webster
Frank Callanan Actor Sergeant
John Cameron Actor Reporter
Hugh Carlsson Actor Captain
Oswald Conroy Actor 1st Business Man
Ernest Cook Actor 3rd Soldier
Reg Croker Actor 3rd Business Man
Albert Crowhurst Actor Stenographer
Jean Davis Actor Joan Burke
Elsie Dick Actor Bess Schelling
Megan Edwards Actor Katherine Driscoll
Jack Fegan Actor 1st Corpse (Driscoll)
Joan Fitzpatrick Actor Julia Blake
Cleo Grant Actor Dowager
Joseph Gubbay Actor Rabbi
Ernest Guthrie Actor Priest
Peter Harding Actor 2nd General
Henry Howlett Actor 1st Soldier
Norman Iversen Actor 3rd General
Paul Johnson Actor 4th Soldier
John Kelly Actor Charley
Charles Kitchener Actor 4th Corpse (Webster)
Kenyon McCarron Actor 2nd Corpse (Schelling)
Jack McGann Actor Young Man
Tim McGill Actor Bevins
Robert Mitchell Actor 2nd Business Man
Rosalie Norton Actor 2nd Whore
Mary Osmond Actor Elsie Dean
John Reed Actor Clergyman
Brian Rogers Actor Newsboy
Leila Rogers Actor 1st Whore
Desmond Rowan Actor 6th Corpse (Dean)
Clarice Sharpe Actor Young Woman
John Sherman Actor Editor
Frank Swonnell Actor Doctor
Peter Taylor Actor 3rd Corpse (Morgan)
Bernard Yardley Actor 1st General
John Kelly Assistant Stage Manager
William Bates Lighting Designer
A Bradley Lighting Operator/Technician
Norman Iversen Lighting Operator/Technician
Robert Murton Lighting Operator/Technician
Irwin Shaw Playwright
Jerold Wells Producer
Edmund Allison Set and/or Property Maker
Charles Kitchener Set Designer
Edmund Allison Stage Manager
V Rossiter
Resources
Further Information All information for this production was taken from The New Years, 1932 - The Plays, People and Events of Six Decades of Sydney's Radical New Theatre, New Theatre, 1992. No cast or production list available (except Playwright and Director) and therefore not entered. Update: cast and production list found in a programme in the 'Sydney New Theatre archives 1932-1990 ML MSS 6244'. Details now e
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Programme Copy of the 21/04/1937 Bury the Dead programme, found in the 'Records of the Sydney New Theatre 1932-1990 ML MSS 6244', which was sourced through the State Library of New South Wales Special Collections.
Event Identifier 22675
Dataset AusStage