Set in a sheriff's office in Sydney in 1828, the play deals with an execution for highway robbery.
Radio adaptation of the one-act play.
First produced as part of a collection of one-act plays (including Heritage, by Susan Gerard, and Wurzel Flummery, by A.A. Milne) by the Adelaide Repertory Theatre at the Australia, Angas street, Adelaide, on Wednesday 25 July 1934.
Producer: Robert Matthews.
Cast: Harold Nicholson (the sheriff), John Mullins (the Rev. Father Daniel Power), Anthony Young (Dr. Lang, D.D.), Phyllis Wasleys (an hysterical woman), and Colin Pelham (a warder).
Setting: the sheriff's room in a Sydney gaol.
Source:
'Well-acted Short Plays at Repertory', News, 26 July 1934, p.13.