form y separately published work icon We're Going Through : A Radio Verse Play of the A.I.F. single work   radio play  
Issue Details: First known date: 1943... 1943 We're Going Through : A Radio Verse Play of the A.I.F.
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Notes

  • 'The play tells the story of the AIF in Malaya during the Muar River - Bakri Road - Parit Sulong action, 17-23 January 1942. The play is based on Grim Glory by Gilbert Mant, various newspaper accounts, and stories related personally to the writer by survivors of the action who reached Australia...' (Author's Note).
  • Dedication: To the Eighth Division, A.I.F.
  • Epigraph: 'The story of the battle at Bakri and Parit Sulong...' Lieut-General H. Gordon Bennett.
  • Epigraph: 'The strong things of life are needed in poetry also...and it may almost be said that before verse can be human again it must be brutal.' J. M. Synge.
  • Play in verse.

Production Details

  • First produced for ABC Radio, Sydney, 27 May 1943. The producer was Lawrence H. Cecil and Peter Finch took the part of 'Chris'.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1943 .
      Extent: 26 leavesp.
      Description: Typescript (photocopy).
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:

      • ABC stamp on title page.

      • Handwritten emendations on original.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Location: The Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts
      Local Id: H1175
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 7 no. 2 1946; (p. 110-111)
— Review of We're Going Through : A Radio Verse Play of the A.I.F. T. Inglis Moore , 1943 single work radio play
Drama Chronicle Leslie Rees , 1945 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Papers , Spring vol. 4 no. 3 1945; (p. 210-211)
Play about Malaya 1945 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 25 July vol. 66 no. 3415 1945; (p. 2)
— Review of We're Going Through : A Radio Verse Play of the A.I.F. T. Inglis Moore , 1943 single work radio play
Jungle Heroism R. G. H. , 1945 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 August no. 33583 1945; (p. 8)
— Review of We're Going Through : A Radio Verse Play of the A.I.F. T. Inglis Moore , 1943 single work radio play
The Current Literary Scene Max Harris , 1945 single work review
— Appears in: Angry Penguins , no. [8] 1945; (p. 169-175)
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The Current Literary Scene Max Harris , 1945 single work review
— Appears in: Angry Penguins , no. [8] 1945; (p. 169-175)
— Review of Poets at War : An Anthology of Verse by Australian Servicemen 1944 anthology poetry ; Fourteen Minutes : Short Sketches of Australian Poets and Their Work, From Harpur to the Present Day: Based on Wireless Talks Delivered for the A.B.C. in 1942 H. M. Green , 1944 selected work criticism ; We're Going Through : A Radio Verse Play of the A.I.F. T. Inglis Moore , 1943 single work radio play ; Barjai 1943-1947 periodical (15 issues); Forests of Pan : A Selection of Poems Not Hitherto Reprinted from Hugh McCrae's Satyrs and Sunlight 1928 Hugh McCrae , 1944 selected work poetry ; As Iron Hills : Poems Flexmore Hudson , 1944 selected work poetry ; Fallen Petals James P. Gray , 1944 selected work poetry ; Southerly vol. 5 no. 4 1944 periodical issue ; I Hear the Tramp of Millions F. Oswald Barnett , 1945 selected work poetry
Jungle Heroism R. G. H. , 1945 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 August no. 33583 1945; (p. 8)
— Review of We're Going Through : A Radio Verse Play of the A.I.F. T. Inglis Moore , 1943 single work radio play
Play about Malaya 1945 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 25 July vol. 66 no. 3415 1945; (p. 2)
— Review of We're Going Through : A Radio Verse Play of the A.I.F. T. Inglis Moore , 1943 single work radio play
Epic and Romance W. Milgate , 1946 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 7 no. 2 1946; (p. 110-111)
— Review of We're Going Through : A Radio Verse Play of the A.I.F. T. Inglis Moore , 1943 single work radio play
Drama Chronicle Leslie Rees , 1945 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Papers , Spring vol. 4 no. 3 1945; (p. 210-211)
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    Malaysia,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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