Marvellous Melbourne single work   drama   humour   - Two acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1977... 1977 Marvellous Melbourne
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Notes

  • Incorporates the final scene of Marvellous Melbourne by Alfred Dampier and J.H. Wrangham.

Production Details

    • Play with music.
    • First produced by the Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory, Melbourne, 11 December 1970.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Theatre Australia vol. 2 no. 4 August 1977 Z626394 1977 periodical issue 1977 pg. 35-44
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Theatre Australia vol. 2 no. 5 September-October 1977 Z626716 1977 periodical issue 1977 pg. 29-39
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Related Works

y separately published work icon Marvellous Melbourne Alfred Dampier , J. H. Wrangham , Garnet Walch , Thomas Somers , 1886 single work drama

The story begins with the arrival of silly English 'new chum,' Charles Harold Vane Somers Golightly at the Spencer Street Railway Station. A local con artist, Robert Copeland, offers to show Charles around the city in an attempt to take advantage of him. The scenes move briskly to the Burke and Wills Memorial, then out to Fairholme House on the outskirts of Melbourne. Later scenes include a Chinese opium den, and Flemington (during the running of the Melbourne Cup). Other characters include : Dick Ledger (a 'revolutionary' who speaks on behalf of the 'down-trodden wukkin' man wot is a slave every day o' the week and ain't erlowed to git 's beer on a Sunday'), Detective Lynch and Inspector Lannigan (both with an eye of Copeland), Polly Sweetapple, Frank Seymour, Mother Crosbie, Maggie, Dorothy, Joseph Westley and Hang Hi.
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Works about this Work

A Year in the Pram : Carlton Kick Starts An(Other) Australian Theatre Renaissance Donald Pulford , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 300-307)
Nindethana and the National Black Theatre : Interrogating the Mythology of the New Wave Maryrose Casey , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 36 2000; (p. 19-33)
Pervaded by APG'eeism: John Romeril Now and Then Geoffrey Milne , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: John Romeril 1993; (p. 13-34)
y separately published work icon Jack Hibberd Paul McGillick , Amsterdam : Rodopi , 1988 Z117642 1988 selected work criticism biography interview
How Marvellous Melbourne Came to Life Jack Hibberd , 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: Theatre Australia , August vol. 2 no. 4 1977; (p. 36-37)
y separately published work icon Jack Hibberd Paul McGillick , Amsterdam : Rodopi , 1988 Z117642 1988 selected work criticism biography interview
Preserving the Disreputable Katharine Brisbane , 1971 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hemisphere , vol. 15 no. 2 1971; (p. 30-35) Contemporary Australian Drama : Perspectives Since 1955 1981; (p. 41-48)
Forebears of "The Doll" Eunice Hanger , 1957 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 18 no. 1 1957; (p. 29-33) The Queensland Centenary Anthology 1959; (p. 262-267)
Pervaded by APG'eeism: John Romeril Now and Then Geoffrey Milne , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: John Romeril 1993; (p. 13-34)
How Marvellous Melbourne Came to Life Jack Hibberd , 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: Theatre Australia , August vol. 2 no. 4 1977; (p. 36-37)
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Last amended 10 Aug 2006 13:50:01
Subjects:
Settings:
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • c
    South Africa,
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    Southern Africa, Africa,
  • 1890s
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