'Nobody who saw the play would ever think that it was set in Australia originally': The Negro Ensemble company's production of 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'

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Title 'Nobody who saw the play would ever think that it was set in Australia originally': The Negro Ensemble company's production of 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'
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Abstract/Description On the surface, Ray Lawler's Australian play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll might seem an unlikely choice for the inaugural season of the New York-based Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). Premiering in Melbourne in 1955, The Doll explores the relation- ships of two white sugarcane cutters and their girlfriends during the summer hiatus between cane-cutting seasons. The Doll is a canonical play in Australian drama, portraying - for the first time - white working-class Australians in an urban milieu, speaking in the accent of Australians.
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Publisher Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance
Volume April 2025
Issue 86
Page 36-65
Date Issued April 2025
Language English
ISBN 13 0810-4123
Citation Glen McGillivray, 'Nobody who saw the play would ever think that it was set in Australia originally': The Negro Ensemble company's production of 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll', Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance, April 2025, 86, April 2025, 36-65
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