Ask No Questions (play)

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Ask No Questions
Written by Gwen Meredith
Directed by Doris Fitton
Date premieredAugust 31, 1940 (1940-08-31)
Place premiered Independent Theatre, Sydney
Original languageEnglish
Genrecomedy
SettingA private hospital

Ask No Questions is a 1940 Australian stage play by Gwen Meredith. [1] It had an all-female cast. [2] Meredith wrote it at the request of Doris Fitton who wanted some plays without no men, because male actors were hard to get with the war on. [3]

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The Sydney Morning Herald called it "a delightful comedy". [4]

The Bulletin said "There are plenty of bright new gags. Perhaps it is that the ladies are merely indulging their natural habits, but whatever the reason there’s not a false note in the whole performance." [5]

A performance of the play was broadcast on radio in 1941. [6]

Premise

A jealous, neurotic wife of a brilliant surgeon suspects every woman who meets her husband of being his mistress.

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References

  1. ↑ "Gwen Meredith". Barrier Daily Truth . Vol. XXXVII, no. 11, 308. New South Wales, Australia. 6 January 1945. p. 3. Retrieved 12 September 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Theatre's First Anniversary". The Daily Telegraph . Vol. V, no. 140. New South Wales, Australia. 2 September 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 12 September 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "No Men To Act On Amateur Stage". The Daily Telegraph . Vol. V, no. 299. New South Wales, Australia. 6 March 1941. p. 12. Retrieved 12 September 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "New Comedy". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 32, 036. New South Wales, Australia. 2 September 1940. p. 3. Retrieved 12 September 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Stage and Concert – "Peacocks in Paradise"", The Bulletin., John Ryan Comic Collection (specific issues), Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 61 (3160), 4 Sep 1940, ISSN   0007-4039, nla.obj-593018699, retrieved 12 September 2023– via Trove
  6. ↑ "Cloncerts — Little Theatres", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, 36 (26), June 28, 1941, nla.obj-715024381, retrieved 12 September 2023– via Trove
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