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y separately published work icon A Nocturne single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 1919... 1919 A Nocturne
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'Keith is to marry a girl with whom his friend Mark is also in love. While she is absent abroad Mark causes Keith to break a promise made to her that he will not take intoxicants, well knowing that with drink he will become utterly degraded. Later Mark's treachery comes to light. In the delirium of drink Keith kills him, but when he comes to his senses he does not recall his crime, and endeavours to hunt down the murderer of his friend. With a return to drink he has a tragic realisation that he is the murderer.'

Source: 'Miscellaneous Works', Australasian, 23 August 1919, p.47.

Notes

  • Designed for screen and stage combination. Atkinson intended 'that the lifeless, artificial scenery used today could be effectually replaced by cinema views of people and objects cast from behind the screen, and made to harmonise with the acting on the stage' ('Australian Plays', Herald, 22 September 1927, p.26).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: E. A. Vidler , 1919 .
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Works about this Work

Australian Drama 1921 single work column
— Appears in: Corroboree : The Journal of the Australian Literature Society , 1 October vol. 1 no. 1 1921; (p. 5-6)
The Drama and the Cinema 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 30 August 1919; (p. 3)

— Review of A Nocturne E. J. Rupert Atkinson , 1919 single work drama
Cold Tea and Blank Verse 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 28 August vol. 40 no. 2063 1919; (p. 2)

— Review of A Nocturne E. J. Rupert Atkinson , 1919 single work drama
The Drama and the Cinema 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 30 August 1919; (p. 3)

— Review of A Nocturne E. J. Rupert Atkinson , 1919 single work drama
Cold Tea and Blank Verse 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 28 August vol. 40 no. 2063 1919; (p. 2)

— Review of A Nocturne E. J. Rupert Atkinson , 1919 single work drama
Australian Drama 1921 single work column
— Appears in: Corroboree : The Journal of the Australian Literature Society , 1 October vol. 1 no. 1 1921; (p. 5-6)
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