Flood (play)

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Flood
Written by Eunice Hanger
Date premiered18 October 1955
Place premieredTwelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane
Original languageEnglish
Genreverse drama
SettingA small Queensland country town

Flood is a 1955 Australian play by Eunice Hanger. It was one of her best known works. [1]

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The play was runner up in the famous 1955 playwriting competition run by the Playwrights' Advisory Board which was won by Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and The Torrents . [2]

The Bulletin said "The play is at its best when it is documentary. Eunice Hanger is not afraid to organise the gathering into yerse-speaking groups in order to comment on the increasing danger and to visualise the havoc wrought in the town... With judicious pruning there is a good play here —a genuine outcrop in Queensland soil, enriching the whole Australian field." [3]

Adaptation

The play was adapted for ABC radio in 1956 by Catherine Shepherd. [4] [5]

Premise

A family is threatened by rising flood waters in a small Queensland country town.Janie Morrison, the daughter of a country school-teacher, is engaged to be married to a young doctor, Eric Mulray, but a few years earlier Eric was partly responsible for the accident that made a semi-cripple of Janie's brother. This and other dramas are brought out in the flood.

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References

  1. Richard Fotheringham, 'Hanger, Eunice (1911–1972)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hanger-eunice-10407/text18443, published first in hardcopy 1996, accessed online 7 September 2023.
  2. Australian Broadcasting Commission (10 March 1956), "A.B.C. Week of Australian Plays", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 18 (10), nla.obj-1427510079, retrieved 24 July 2023 via Trove{{citation}}: Check date values in: |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
  3. "SUNDRY SHOWS Stage and Music", The Bulletin., John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 76 (3951), 2 Nov 1955 [1880], ISSN   0007-4039, nla.obj-2125752486, retrieved 7 September 2023 via Trove
  4. "A.B.C. Week of Australian Plays", ABC Weekly, Australian Broadcasting Commission, 18 (10), 1956-03-10, retrieved 8 January 2022
  5. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (11 August 1956), "RADIO PLAYS for NEXT WEEK A. B. C. COMMERCIAL", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 18 (32), nla.obj-1317671573, retrieved 7 September 2023 via Trove{{citation}}: Check date values in: |year= / |date= mismatch (help)