form y separately published work icon A Sirius Cove single work   radio play   historical fiction   humour  
Adaptation of A Sirius Cove Lionel Shave , 1935 single work drama
Issue Details: First known date: 1938... 1938 A Sirius Cove
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'In A Sirius Cove, Lionel Shave satirises In a frolicsome way contemporary Bellevue Hill society. The comedy also pokes fun at those who attempt to deny the early Australian convict background' (Leslie Rees. 'We Shall Have Drama', p. 6).

The play is a. comedy of social life in the setting of a Bellevue Hill (Sydney) mansion, and involves a contest between a mother's ambitions and a daughter's desires. In the end a first fleet ancestor plays a useful part in the daughter's behalf ('Three Dramatic Sessions.' Daily Examiner, Grafton, 7 May 1938, p. 8).

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      Melbourne, Victoria,: 1938 .
      Series: form Radio Drama Week [1938] Australian Broadcasting Commission (publisher), 1938 series - publisher radio play

      Eight Australian authors will be represented in the Broadcasting Commission's Radio Drama Week, which will be opened at 6.30 p.m. on Sunday by the Federal Controller of productions, Mr F. D. Clewlow...' ('Broadcasting,' p. 9).

      Tonight (Sunday)... the Australian Broadcasting Commission's second Australian Radio Drama Week will be launched by the Commission's Federal Controller of Production (Mr. P. D. Clewlow).... Every night next week national programme number one will feature an Australian radlo play ('Radio Drama Week,' p. 22).

      The plays, place of performance and broadcast order were:

      1. Samson (Stivens); 8 May

      2. Brother of Mankind (Barclay) ; 9 May [Episode 13 of the Into the Light series]

      3. A Sirius Cove (Shave) and Boiled or Fried (Brooksbank); 10 May

      4. Two Thousand Million Years (Peters); 11 May

      5. The Jackaroo (Barry); 12 May

      6. Conglomerate (Turner); 13 May

      7. Daybreak (Shepherd); 14 May
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