y separately published work icon Pacific Paradise single work   drama   - Three acts (12/13 scenes)
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 Pacific Paradise
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Production Details

  • First produced at the Waterside Workers Theatre, Sydney, 26 November 1955 and on ABC radio, January 1956.


    In addition, by 1962 the play had been produced in New Zealand, the UK, Japan. Latin America, the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Germany, China, Albania, North Korea, Rumania, Bulgaria, Cuba, Iceland.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1950-1957 .
      Extent: [3], 29, 34, 15 leavesp.
      Description: Typescript (duplicated).
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H0365B
      1950-1957 .
      Extent: 88 leavesp.
      Description: Typescript (carbon copy).
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Subtitle: a play in 12 scenes.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H0365
      1950-1957 .
      Extent: 78 leavesp.
      Description: Typescript (duplicated).
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Subtitle: a play in 13 scenes.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H0365A
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Theatregoer (Supplement) vol. 3 no. 1 March 1963 Z657128 1963 periodical issue 1963 pg. 19-36
    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: Australasian Drama Studies , 1991 .
      Extent: 52p.
      Note/s:
      • Reprinted from Theatregoer 3, 1 (March 1963) 19-36
      • Introduced by Vic Lloyd.
      ISBN: 0646068156 (pbk)
Alternative title: Ráj v Tichomoří : hra o třech dějstvích (sedmi obrazech)
Language: Czech
    • Prague,
      c
      Czech Republic,
      c
      Eastern Europe, Europe,
      :
      Dilia ,
      1957 .
      Extent: 104p.

Works about this Work

Australia and China at 50 : The New Wave Theatre and the Drama of Cultural Exchange Anne Pender , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 46 no. 4 2022; (p. 482-495)

'2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the opening up of relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China. When he became prime minister in 1972, Gough Whitlam sent the first ambassador to China (Dr Stephen Fitzgerald), and in his term of office established support for artists’ exchanges from the Australia Council. The Australian Ballet visited China in 1980, the first major ballet company to tour since the Cultural Revolution. The touring of China by Australian theatre, opera and dance companies has flourished since then, particularly over the last decade, and Australian spoken-word drama has featured in the relationship between the two countries since 1983. Since the 1980s, the work of the New Wave dramatists has captured the interest of Chinese audiences over a sustained period beyond the years of the New Wave itself. The theatre has, in some respects, provided a respite from the rigours of realpolitik and most importantly a means of genuine interaction between ordinary Australians and Chinese citizens who make up the audiences. This article documents the take-up of the New Wave drama in China, and the legacy of the relationships created in this formative period of Australian theatre in its international context.' (Publication abstract)

Brave Red Witches : Communist Women, Identity and the New Theatre Susan Pfisterer , Carolyn Pickett , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999; (p. 162-193) The New Theatre : The People, Plays and Politics behind Australia's Radical Theatre 2022;
Into the Fray : Women and War Susan Pfisterer , Carolyn Pickett , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999; (p. 128-162)
Dymphna Cusack's Plays Helen Thomson , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 32 1998; (p. 63-76)
Playing with the Past: Towards a Feminist Deconstruction of Australian Theatre Historiography Susan Pfisterer , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 23 1993; (p. 8-22)
Last amended 4 Apr 2019 07:54:33
Subjects:
  • Maluku,
    c
    Indonesia,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • South Pacific, Pacific Region,
Settings:
  • 1950s
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