y separately published work icon Within These Walls : A Period Play in Four Acts single work   drama   - Four acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1936... 1936 Within These Walls : A Period Play in Four Acts
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Notes

  • Printed in both publications are extracts from reviews of the 1946 production published in the Age, 8 May 1946, and in the Bulletin, May 1946.
  • The review extracts indicate the setting of the play is the Dandenongs, Victoria. The time of the fourth act varies in the text between 1910 (characters and setting note at the beginning of the play), 1914 (review extracts and note under the title for the play in the source Four Period Plays: 'Dealing with early colonising in Victoria between 1850 - 1914.'), and 1912 (costuming note for fourth act).

Production Details

  • First produced at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria, November 1936 by the National Theatre Movement. Subsequently produced at the National Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria, 1946 by the National Theatre Movement.

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First known date: 1936
    • Swan Hill, Swan Hill - Robinvale area, North West Victoria, Victoria,: Swan Hill National Theatre Movement , 1948 .
      Extent: 56p.
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by Gertrude Johnson.
      • In her Foreword, Gertrude Johnson remarks 'The play was produced for us [National Theatre Movement, Melbourne] ... [and] [t]en years later, when the National Theatre Movement celebrated its tenth birthday ... I felt the desire to present it again, this time on our own National Theatre Stage.' Printed in the work are extracts from reviews of the 1946 performance. The copy in the Palmer Collection at the National Library of Australia has a signed inscription by Marjorie McLeod dated Swan Hill, 1948. This would put the date of this publication of the work somewhere between the performance in 1946 and 1948.
      • Dedication: For Shirley, Clarice, Dorothy, Kath, Betty and Dot and all of those dear people who have helped to bring this play to life.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Four Period Plays Marjorie McLeod , Swan Hill : Marjorie McLeod , 1958 Z73587 1958 selected work drama Swan Hill : Marjorie McLeod , 1958 pg. 1-47
    Note: Author's note: The author will always be grateful to those first actors who gave life to this play and to the many who played in it in subsequent productions, particularly to the different 'Janets' and 'Hannahs', Clarice, Dorothy, Irene, Shirley, Betty, Dot and Pauline, also to Ruth. (p.3)
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Works about this Work

Drama in the Dandenongs 1946 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 May vol. 67 no. 3458 1946; (p. 24)
— Review of Within These Walls : A Period Play in Four Acts Marjorie McLeod , 1936 single work drama
Drama in the Dandenongs 1946 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 May vol. 67 no. 3458 1946; (p. 24)
— Review of Within These Walls : A Period Play in Four Acts Marjorie McLeod , 1936 single work drama
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Subjects:
Settings:
  • Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,
  • Rural,
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • ca. 1900-1910
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