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Issue Details: First known date: 1924... 1924 Odds
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Little is known about the plot of this play, which pre-dated Dann's first big success (the prize-winning In Beauty It Is Finished) by six years. Along with a three-act farce called Family Failings, it is Dann's earliest work.

Notes

  • The manuscript in the Hanger Collection is described as a two-act play; contemporary newspapers report (likely erroneously) that Odds was a one-act comedy.

Production Details

  • Produced by the Sandgate Amateur Dramatic Society (of which Dann was then an active member) in around 1923 or 1924.

    (Source: 'New Playwright a Keen-Eyed Queenslander', Telegraph, 16 May 1931, p.13.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1924 .
      Extent: 11, 2-14 leavesp.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Series: The Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts series - publisher

      A collection in the Fryer Library at The University of Queensland of manuscript film and play scripts.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Location: Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts
      Local Id: H0398
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