form Variations on a Printing Press single work   radio play   - One act
Alternative title: A Play Without a Name
Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 Variations on a Printing Press
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

A printer suffers a nervous breakdown.

Notes

  • According to contemporary newspapers, this radio play was first performed as A Play Without a Name.
  • Newspapers in 1939 reported that the Circle Theatre Club (London) intended to produce the radio play as a stage play at St Alphege Hall from 11 April 1939: details not traced. (Source: 'Brisbane Playwright's One-Act Play to be Produced in London', Telegraph, 10 January 1939, p.3.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

New Australian Books Frederick T. Macartney , 1937 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 10 November vol. 9 no. 11 1937; (p. 166-169)

— Review of Best Australian One-Act Plays 1937 anthology drama ; Wide Horizons : Wanderings in Central Australia R. H. Croll , 1937 single work prose ; Murder in the Silo Edmund Barclay , 1937 single work radio play ; Variations on a Printing Press Charles Porter , 1937 single work radio play ; Beam Ends Errol Flynn , 1937 single work autobiography
New Australian Books Frederick T. Macartney , 1937 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 10 November vol. 9 no. 11 1937; (p. 166-169)

— Review of Best Australian One-Act Plays 1937 anthology drama ; Wide Horizons : Wanderings in Central Australia R. H. Croll , 1937 single work prose ; Murder in the Silo Edmund Barclay , 1937 single work radio play ; Variations on a Printing Press Charles Porter , 1937 single work radio play ; Beam Ends Errol Flynn , 1937 single work autobiography
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