Stockade (play)

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Stockade
Genreverse drama
Running time60 mins
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
SyndicatesABC
Written by Richard Lane
Original release1942

Stockade is a 1942 radio play by Richard Lane who regarded it as one of his most significant works. [1] It is a verse drama about the Eureka Rebellion. It tells the story though Bridget Shannahan who was on Bakery during the Stockade period. She was a real person, grandmother to Lane's then-wife. [2] [3]

It aired in 1942. Wireless Weekly called it "an artistic success". [4] Other views were also positive. [5]

The play was produced again in 1943, [6] 1947 [7] [8] and in 1950. [9]

Leslie Rees called it "a good free-verse treatment of a difficult subject, from a particular point of view." [10]

References

  1. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (August 27, 2022). "3 Forgotten Australian Television Plays". Filmink. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  2. ↑ "IT HAPPENED THIS WEEK". The Daily Telegraph . Vol. III, no. 37. New South Wales, Australia. 26 July 1942. p. 8. Retrieved 24 August 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "The "A.B.C. Weekly" and the "Listener-in"". Advocate . Vol. LXXV, no. 4641. Victoria, Australia. 30 July 1942. p. 9. Retrieved 24 August 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Miners' Fight", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 37 (30), Sydney: Wireless Press, August 1, 1942, retrieved 24 August 2023– via Trove
  5. ↑ "Coming on the Air", ABC Weekly, 4 (30), Sydney, 25 July 1942, retrieved 24 August 2023– via Trove
  6. ↑ "Lane's Eureka", ABC Weekly, 5 (48), Sydney, 27 November 1943, retrieved 24 August 2023– via Trove
  7. ↑ "A.B.C. Ploy-lovers' Guide", ABC Weekly, 9 (40), Sydney, 4 October 1947, retrieved 24 August 2023– via Trove
  8. ↑ ""EUREKA STOCKADE" IN SERMON FORM". Smith's Weekly . Vol. XXIX, no. 34. New South Wales, Australia. 18 October 1947. p. 20. Retrieved 24 August 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ ABC Weekly, vol. 12, Sydney, 2 December 1950, retrieved 24 August 2023– via Trove{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ↑ Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards an Australian Drama. p. 102.
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