Mother's Day (play)

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Mother's Day is a 1940 Australian play by Leslie Rees. It received a number of amateur productions. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Reviewing a production Wireless Weekly called it "an unpretentious and pleasant enough one-act play. His juvenile characters are well drawn, but the denouement is easily anticipated." [5]

The play was published in a 1944 collection Six Australian One Act Plays. [6] [7]

It was one of the plays recommended for production in 1940 by the Playwrights' Advisory Board. [8]

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References

  1. "BEHIND THE FOOTLIGHTS: AMBITIO[?] PRODUCTIONS IN AMATEUR WORLD". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 31, 802. New South Wales, Australia. 4 December 1939. p. 12 (Women's Supplement). Retrieved 16 March 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  2. "BRYANTS PLAYHOUSE". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 31, 891. New South Wales, Australia. 16 March 1940. p. 10. Retrieved 16 March 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  3. "MUSIC AND DRAMA". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 31, 933. New South Wales, Australia. 4 May 1940. p. 10. Retrieved 16 March 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  4. "MORE AUSTRALIAN ONE-ACT PLAYS". The Telegraph. Queensland, Australia. 31 May 1941. p. 7 (SPORTS FINAL). Retrieved 16 March 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  5. "AROUND THE LITTLE THEATRES", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 35 (14 (April 6, 1940)), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-718424567, retrieved 16 March 2024 via Trove
  6. "STARS OF THE AIR". Pittsworth Sentinel . Vol. 44. Queensland, Australia. 2 September 1944. p. 1. Retrieved 16 March 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  7. "SHORT PLAYS". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 33, 271. New South Wales, Australia. 12 August 1944. p. 6. Retrieved 16 March 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  8. "Australian Plays For Stage", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 35 (11 (March 16, 1940)), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-718411736, retrieved 16 March 2024 via Trove