The Touch Of Silk
by
Betty Roland
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
086819154X
ISBN-13
9780868191546
Publisher
Currency Press Pty Ltd
Imprint
Currency Press Pty Ltd
Country of Manufacture
AU
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 25th, 1974
Print length
117 Pages
Weight
154 grams
Dimensions
20.40 x 13.30 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification:
Plays, playscripts
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At its premiere performance by the Melbourne Repertory Theatre in 1928, this poignant drama of Jeanne, a French war-bride and her shell-shocked husband battling the hardship and prejudices of an isolated farming community, was acclaimed as ''a vein of gold'' and ''the pattern of great drama''. One critic proclaimed that Australian drama had at last been born. Though written at a time when a national drama was the dream of a tiny minority, the play, like its high-spirited heroine, has survived and gained new dimensions, both as a portrait of rural life in the 1920s and as a reminder that Australia has been peopled by immigrants from the world''s disasters who have countered the tyrannies of distance, climate and memory, each in their own way, with their own tools of survival.
''At last Australian drama has been born,'' exclaimed a critic at the premiere of The Touch of Silk in 1928. This is the original 1928 version of the play about a homesick French war bride who is exposed to the ignorant cruelty of a drought-stricken Mallee town.
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