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Event

A Shillingsworth

Venue

Garrick Theatre, Melbourne, VIC

First Date

1931

Dates Estimated

Status

Amateur

World Premiere

Yes

Primary Genre

Theatre - Spoken Word

Secondary Genre

One Act Plays
Competition

Subjects

1930s
Economic depression

Organisations

Australian Literature Society, Sponsor

Contributors

Name	Function	Notes
Marjorie McLeod	Playwright

Resources

Article: A Woman's Letter. News from the South. Australian Literature, Cairns Post, 7 July 1931, 2
Chapter: Carolyn Pickett, Susan Pfisterer-Smith, Purse Strings and Apron Strings: Women's Economic Agency, Playing with ideas: Australian women playwrights from the suffragettes to the sixties, 1999, 95-127

Works

A Shillingsworth

Text Nationality

Australia

Production Nationality

Australia

Further Information

Play won first prize in Australian Literature Society's one-act play competition, announced 16 June 1931, and winners produced by Society at unconfirmed date later in the year.

Event Status

Completed

Data Source

Source	Description
Australian Drama Project (UQ)	SHILLINMM
Book	John McCallum, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2009

Event Identifier

96052

Dataset

AusStage