y separately published work icon The Hour Before My Brother Dies single work   drama  
First known date: 1985 Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 The Hour Before My Brother Dies
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon The Hour Before My Brother Dies Daniel Keene , ( dir. James Clayden ) Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986 6075869 1986 single work film/TV crime

'Adapted from the stage play by Daniel Keene. Sally visits her brother Martin, the hour before he is due to be hanged for murder. What is the hold these two have on each other physically and emotionally?'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 21/6/2013)

Notes

  • The French version was published as part of a series of Australian plays in French; the original English version has not been published.

Production Details

  • First produced in Melbourne, July 1985, by the Univeral Theatre in North Fitzroy.

    Cast: John Howard and Rhonda Wilson.


    Later performed in New York, January 1986; Sydney, July 1990; and Lodz, Poland, December 1991.


    An adaptation for television was performed in Canada at the Banff International Television Festival.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Une heure avant la mort de mon frere
Language: French
    • Carnieres, Belgium, Western Europe, Europe,: Lansman , 1995 .
      Extent: 46p.
      Description: illus., port.
      Note/s:
      • One of a set of six plays published as Six Pieces du Theatre Contemporain Australien.
      ISBN: 2872821163
      Series: Decouverte du Theatre Australien Lansman (publisher), series - publisher Number in series: 1
    • Carnieres, Belgium, Western Europe, Europe,: Lansman , 2002 .
      Extent: 46p.
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