'The new play, 'Time Me from Now', is deeply rooted in his own childhood in a working-class area of Melbourne. [...] His Play is set in 1922, when tuberculosis, the White Plague, still ravaged the community. One of his aunts died of it at 21, an uncle at 19.'
Source: 'Beynon Writes Again -- After 27 Years', The Age, 1 August 1983, p.12.