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Les Emigres aux Terres Australes (English: The Emigrants to the Southern Lands) is a 1792 French stage play by Citizen Gamas. The play had a fortnight's run as in the Theatre des Amis de la Patrie, in the Rue de Louvois.

Background

It was the first play to be set in colonial Australia and is sometimes referred to as the first Australian play.

The subtitle was Le Dernier Chapitre d’une Grande Révolution, Comedie (The Last Chapter of a Great Revolution, a Comedy).

References

1. "Advocate Magazine". Advocate. Vol. LXXXVI, no. 5110. Victoria, Australia. 2 July 1953. p. 9. Retrieved 17 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN PLAY". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 22, 331. Victoria, Australia. 23 February 1918. p. 7. Retrieved 17 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
3. Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards An Australian Drama. pp. 1–3.
4. Stokes, Freg J. (2 September 2020). "Australia, a Counterrevolutionary Colony".

External links

• The First 'Australian' Play : Les Emigres aux Terres Australes at Austlit

Notes

• L. A. TRIEBEL, LES ÉMIGRÉS AUX TERRES AUSTRALES, French Studies, Volume 1, Issue 4, October 1947, Pages 381–b–382, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/1.4.381-b
• Gamas, Citizen.; Clancy, Patricia A. (1984), "xv, 29, 29 p. ; 25 cm.", The first "Australian" play : Les emigres aux terres australes (1792), Monash Australiana series, Clayton, Vic: Dept. of English, Monash University, nla.obj-2498461012, retrieved 17 November 2023 – via Trove

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