y separately published work icon Departmental single work   drama   - Two acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Departmental
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Departmental Mervyn Rutherford , ( dir. Keith Wilkes ) Australia : ABC Television , 1980 Z897866 1980 single work film/TV

'Departmental is the story of a theft of money in a police station and the interrogation of two uniformed policemen. (The playwright is a policeman turned barrister.)

'There are only four characters in the play. Ray Barrett plays Superintendent Spartan, the officer leading the inquiry into the theft. Martin Vaughan (known for his mammoth role in Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory) plays Inspector Cook, assisting Spartan in the interrogation.

'The two uniformed police who are suspected of taking the money are played by Gary Day as Constable Mcllveney and Rod Williams as Constable Pyers.'

Source:

'Tough Roles Because I'm Ugly: Barrett', Australian Women's Weekly, 6 August 1980, p.125S. (Via Trove.)

Production Details

  • First produced by the Melbourne Theatre Co., Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, 23 May 1978.

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Subjects:
  • Country towns,
  • Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,
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