Shallow Cups
Shallow Cups is a 1933 Australian play by Dymphna Cusack.[1][2]
The play was published in a 1934 collection of Australian plays Eight Plays for Australians.[3] It was staged a number of times through the 1930s and 1940s by amateur theatres in Sydney, Melbourna and England.[4] It won a Drama League prize in Sydney, and was on the Playwrights’ Advisory Board’s list of recommended Australian plays.[5]
Leslie Rees called it "part-dramatic, part-satirical, with touches of the occult... the play was for a while quite popular with amateur groups."[6]
Premise
[edit]A dead girl's friends and relations are given the option to resurrect her but fail.
References
[edit]- ^ Marilla North, 'Cusack, Ellen Dymphna (Nell) (1902–1981)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cusack-ellen-dymphna-nell-12385/text22259, published first in hardcopy 2007, accessed online 14 March 2024.
- ^ "The Red Page ELLEN DYMPHNA CUSACK", The Bulletin, 57 (2953 (16 Sep 1936)), Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, nla.obj-568971528, retrieved 14 March 2024 – via Trove
- ^ "An Australian Book of Plays". Advocate. Vol. LXVII, no. 4227. Victoria, Australia. 23 August 1934. p. 3. Retrieved 14 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "REPERTORY GROUPS". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 31, 711. New South Wales, Australia. 19 August 1939. p. 11. Retrieved 14 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "PLAYWRIGHTS OF AUSTRALIA VERSATILE DYMPHNA CUSACK", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 35 (31 (August 3, 1940)), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-720042748, retrieved 14 March 2024 – via Trove
- ^ Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards An Australian Drama. p. 118.
External links
[edit]- Shallow Cups at Ausstage