| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Subject | plays |
| Genre | playwriting |
| Published | Sydney |
| Publisher | Angus & Robertson |
| Publication date | 1937 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Pages | 406 |
Best Australian One-Act Plays is a 1937 collection of Australian one-act plays. It was published at a time when Australian playwriting was relatively rare. Twenty one plays were selected out of 200 by William Moore and T. Inglis Moore.
The Sydney Morning Herald called it an "important volume" and the plays "natural, sincere, and dramatically effective. They make pleasant reading, and should pave the way to an annual collection.'
Selected plays
- Ancestors by Vance Palmer
- Andeganora by Louis Esson
- Anzac reunion by Edgar Holt
- At dusk by Millicent Armstrong
- Dampier's Ghost by Henrietta Drake-Brockman
- Easter by Dulcie Deamer
- The fourposter by Dora Wilcox
- Garden Fantasia by John Wheeler
- Gib It 'Tshillin' by Montague Grover
- Hester Siding by Alexander Turner
- Morning by Betty Roland
- Murder in the Silo by Edmund Barclay
- No Family by Miles Franklin
- Pioneers by Katherine Susannah Prichard
- The Rustling of Voices by Lloyd Ross
- Searchlights by Sydney Tomholt
- Sending Grannie Off by Morris Hay Simpson
- Stampede by Bernard Cronin
- The Sub-Editor's Room by Leslie Rees
- The trap by Stewart Macky
- Variations on a Printing Press by Charles Porter
References
- "Australian Drama". The Sun. No. 1798. New South Wales, Australia. 12 September 1937. p. 12 (Magazine). Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- "A Volume of Plays". The West Australian. Vol. 53, no. 15, 983. Western Australia. 18 September 1937. p. 4. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- "BOOK REVIEWS". Truth. No. 2490. New South Wales, Australia. 26 September 1937. p. 31. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- "ONE ACT PLAYS BY AUSTRALIANS". The Herald. No. 18, 821. Victoria, Australia. 11 September 1937. p. 36. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- "Our Native Drama". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 27 November 1937. p. 10. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- "AUSTRALIAN DRAMA". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 31, 093. New South Wales, Australia. 28 August 1937. p. 12. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
- Best Australian One Act Plays at AustLit