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Issue Details: First known date: 1934... 1934 An Offering to Isis
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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the play 'concerned a half comical, half-melodramatic encounter between tourists and ancient Egyptian priests and priestesses. When either the Egyptians or the tourists were alone on the stage the proceedings moved along smoothly, but the writer failed to make the two oddly-assorted elements mix.'

Source:

'Young Playwright Presents Five One-Act Plays', Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 1934, p.10.

Production Details

  • Performed as part of a series of five one-act plays, all written and produced by Trafford Whitelock, then seventeen years old, at the Emerson Hall, Liverpool Street, Sydney, on 21 March 1934.

    Produced under the auspices of the Junior Theatre League, to whom all funds were donated.

    Cast members included Janet Kelly, Ann Carlson, Eleanor Wilson, Viti Brandon, Elaine Wickens, Joy Murray, Margaret Owen, Nessie Connell, Laurette Grouse, Joan Brandon, Jean Hills, Gwyn Thompson, Lochhead Wilson, Jack Kelly, Raymond Pybus, Harry Dale, Ronald Mooney, Donald Nicholson, Toby Potts, Joe Latona, and Alex Pitman.

    See:

    'Coming Events', Sydney Morning Herald, 17 March 1934, p.10.

    'Young Authors' Plays', Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 1934, p.10.

    'Young Author's Plays', Sydney Morning Herald, 17 March 1934, p.9.

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