y separately published work icon Two Minutes' Silence : A Play single work   drama   - Six scenes
Alternative title: Two Minutes' Silence
Issue Details: First known date: 1933... 1933 Two Minutes' Silence : A Play
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Two Minutes' Silence Leslie Haylen , ( dir. Paulette McDonagh ) Sydney : McDonagh Productions , 1933 6113416 1933 single work film/TV war literature

On Armistic Day, four people gather in General Gresham's living room for the two minutes' silence. As the two minutes pass, each of the four remember their own experiences of World War I.

General Gresham recalls making a blunder that cost his men their lives.

His grandchildren's French governess, Marie, remembers her lover Pierre's rejection of her, when he returned from the war to find that she had had a child, after being raped by a German officer.

His charwoman, Mrs Trott, thinks of when she heard that her son had been killed in action.

His butler James remembers his years of homelessness on the Thames embankment, during which period he witness the suicide of an ex-soldier.

Notes

  • DRAMA BIB Notes: First produced as a play at the Community Playhouse, Sydney, 15 July 1930. This is a published screen play illustrated with stills from the film production by the McDonagh sisters, Paulette, Isabel and Phyllis, in 1933.

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Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Australian War Drama: 1909 to 1939 Susan Diana Cullen , 1989 Z362683 1989 single work thesis
New War Play : Two Minutes' Silence : Community Playhouse 1930 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 July no. 28870 1930; (p. 18)

— Review of Two Minutes' Silence : A Play Leslie Haylen , 1933 single work drama
Play Competition 1930 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 April no. 28783 1930; (p. 10)
New War Play : Two Minutes' Silence : Community Playhouse 1930 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 July no. 28870 1930; (p. 18)

— Review of Two Minutes' Silence : A Play Leslie Haylen , 1933 single work drama
Play Competition 1930 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 April no. 28783 1930; (p. 10)
y separately published work icon Australian War Drama: 1909 to 1939 Susan Diana Cullen , 1989 Z362683 1989 single work thesis
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