y separately published work icon The Last Post single work   drama   - One act
Issue Details: First known date: 1936... 1936 The Last Post
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Set in Sydney, this play takes place around the war memorial, where the protagonist is visited by the ghosts of dead colleagues. It is a musing on the impact of grief and the war on individuals.

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    y separately published work icon Bleak Dawn and Other Plays Sydney Tomholt , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1936 Z73218 1936 selected work drama Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1936 pg. 147-160
      1936 .
      (Manuscript) assertion

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      Held at: University of New England Dixson Library
      Location: Campbell Howard Collection
      Local Id: 418
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Works about this Work

Spatialising the Ghosts of Anzac in the Plays of Sydney Tomholt : The Absent Soldier and the War Memorial Veronica Kelly , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 23 no. 1 2007; (p. 18-35) Kelly argues that the resonant presentation of catastrophic effects of war in the plays of Sydney Tomholt makes them important early examples of modernist drama.
y separately published work icon Australian War Drama: 1909 to 1939 Susan Diana Cullen , 1989 Z362683 1989 single work thesis
Spatialising the Ghosts of Anzac in the Plays of Sydney Tomholt : The Absent Soldier and the War Memorial Veronica Kelly , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 23 no. 1 2007; (p. 18-35) Kelly argues that the resonant presentation of catastrophic effects of war in the plays of Sydney Tomholt makes them important early examples of modernist drama.
y separately published work icon Australian War Drama: 1909 to 1939 Susan Diana Cullen , 1989 Z362683 1989 single work thesis
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  • 1920s
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