Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
$32.69
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2012
Summary
‘It’s a damn good play. It’s as simple as that.’ Co-producer Sir Laurence Olivier, 1975
Every summer Roo and Barney have come down from their work in the Queensland canefields to the Carlton house they share with Olive and Nancy for an annual celebration of love and laughter. But this year Nancy has deserted the house to get married, and Pearl has taken her place…
Ray Lawler’s brawny canecutters, and their long-standing seasonal romance with two Melbourne barmaids, are now par…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780868199672 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0868199672 |
| Author: | Ray Lawler |
| Publisher: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 137mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
‘It was reported that people drove hundreds of kilometres and a man swam a flooded river to see it.’
Philip Parsons, Companion to Theatre in Australia
‘It’s a damn good play. It’s as simple as that.’
Co-producer Sir Laurence Olivier, 1957
Ray Lawler
Ray Lawler was thrust into prominence when his play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, in which he appeared in the role of Barney, became a hit for the Union Theatre Repertory Company in 1955, and subsequently toured with enormous success throughout Australia and to London.
The Piccadilly Bushman, written in 1959, toured nationally under the J.C. Williamson banner. Lawler’s other plays include Kid Stakes and Other Times (completing The Doll Trilogy in 1975), The Man Who Shot the Albatross and Godsend.
Having lived abroad from 1957, Lawler returned in 1975 to serve as Literary Adviser to Melbourne Theatre Company and direct a number of productions for that company.
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