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Issue Details: First known date: 1966... 1966 The Lucky Streak : A Play
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  • First produced at the Jane Street Theatre, Sydney, 18 October 1966. Director: Alexander Hay

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1966 .
      Extent: 113p. (2 copies)p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Copy 2: also contains revisions made 1967, January 5, as well as one typescript leaf listing revisions and carbon copies of this leaf, one replacement leaf and two replacement speeches on another leaf, 34 cm. or less. Typescript (duplicated) Note on title-page: Revised March 23rd, 1966.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H1565
      1966 .
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: Flinders University of South Australia
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Plays of the 60s : Volume 2 Katharine Brisbane (editor), Sydney : Currency Press , 1998 Z184660 1998 anthology drama (taught in 2 units) Sydney : Currency Press , 1998 pg. 73-165

Works about this Work

Australian Drama Gains Currency Rodney Wissler , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , July vol. 9 no. 1 1973; (p. 45-48)

— Review of The Lucky Streak : A Play James Searle , 1966 single work drama ; The Slaughter of St. Teresa's Day : A Play Peter Joseph Kenna , 1959 single work drama ; Macquarie : A Play Alex Buzo , 1971 single work drama ; The Chapel Perilous, Or, The Perilous Adventures of Sally Banner Dorothy Hewett , 1972 single work musical theatre ; The Removalists David Williamson , 1971 single work drama
New Drama Axel Kruse , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 33 no. 2 1973; (p. 240-246)

— Review of The Lucky Streak : A Play James Searle , 1966 single work drama
Assaying the New Drama A. A. Phillips , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Winter vol. 32 no. 2 1973; (p. 189-195) Responses : Selected Writings 1979; (p. 182-189) Contemporary Australian Drama : Perspectives Since 1955 1981; (p. 217-224)

— Review of The Third Secretary : A Play Ralph Peterson , 1972 single work drama ; A Stretch of the Imagination Jack Hibberd , 1971 single work drama ; The Removalists David Williamson , 1971 single work drama ; Four Australian Plays Barbara Stellmach , 1973 selected work drama ; The Chapel Perilous, Or, The Perilous Adventures of Sally Banner Dorothy Hewett , 1972 single work musical theatre ; The Lucky Streak : A Play James Searle , 1966 single work drama

A. A. Phillips introduces his review of six new Australian dramas by saying: 'The quality of these plays, and others in the present burgeoning, is perhaps not the most important consideration. It matters much more that they are here and that they are satisfying audiences. Culturally in the widest sense of the word, the theatre's first importance is not as a potent vehicle of art, but as the place where a crosssection of the community has a common, and preferably a significant, experience. But so long as our theatre presented almost entirely imported material it forfeited half its power to develop our social coherence. Moreover, it fed our tendency to drowse into acceptance of a client-state mentality. It therefore matters a good deal that a sizeable slice of our common entertainment is now being presented by our own entertainers concerned with our own forms of living and igniting an eagerness of response. If their plays are also good art or penetrating social comment, so very much the better; but that is not their primary social function.' (Meanjin 32.2 (June 1973):189)

Untitled T. Gibson , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 October 1972; (p. 10)

— Review of The Lucky Streak : A Play James Searle , 1966 single work drama
[Review] The Removalists Ron Blair , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 25-30 November 1972; (p. 201)

— Review of The Lucky Streak : A Play James Searle , 1966 single work drama ; The Removalists David Williamson , 1971 single work drama ; The Chapel Perilous, Or, The Perilous Adventures of Sally Banner Dorothy Hewett , 1972 single work musical theatre
Assaying the New Drama A. A. Phillips , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Winter vol. 32 no. 2 1973; (p. 189-195) Responses : Selected Writings 1979; (p. 182-189) Contemporary Australian Drama : Perspectives Since 1955 1981; (p. 217-224)

— Review of The Third Secretary : A Play Ralph Peterson , 1972 single work drama ; A Stretch of the Imagination Jack Hibberd , 1971 single work drama ; The Removalists David Williamson , 1971 single work drama ; Four Australian Plays Barbara Stellmach , 1973 selected work drama ; The Chapel Perilous, Or, The Perilous Adventures of Sally Banner Dorothy Hewett , 1972 single work musical theatre ; The Lucky Streak : A Play James Searle , 1966 single work drama

A. A. Phillips introduces his review of six new Australian dramas by saying: 'The quality of these plays, and others in the present burgeoning, is perhaps not the most important consideration. It matters much more that they are here and that they are satisfying audiences. Culturally in the widest sense of the word, the theatre's first importance is not as a potent vehicle of art, but as the place where a crosssection of the community has a common, and preferably a significant, experience. But so long as our theatre presented almost entirely imported material it forfeited half its power to develop our social coherence. Moreover, it fed our tendency to drowse into acceptance of a client-state mentality. It therefore matters a good deal that a sizeable slice of our common entertainment is now being presented by our own entertainers concerned with our own forms of living and igniting an eagerness of response. If their plays are also good art or penetrating social comment, so very much the better; but that is not their primary social function.' (Meanjin 32.2 (June 1973):189)

[Review] The Removalists Ron Blair , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 25-30 November 1972; (p. 201)

— Review of The Lucky Streak : A Play James Searle , 1966 single work drama ; The Removalists David Williamson , 1971 single work drama ; The Chapel Perilous, Or, The Perilous Adventures of Sally Banner Dorothy Hewett , 1972 single work musical theatre
Untitled T. Gibson , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 October 1972; (p. 10)

— Review of The Lucky Streak : A Play James Searle , 1966 single work drama
New Drama Axel Kruse , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 33 no. 2 1973; (p. 240-246)

— Review of The Lucky Streak : A Play James Searle , 1966 single work drama
Australian Drama Gains Currency Rodney Wissler , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , July vol. 9 no. 1 1973; (p. 45-48)

— Review of The Lucky Streak : A Play James Searle , 1966 single work drama ; The Slaughter of St. Teresa's Day : A Play Peter Joseph Kenna , 1959 single work drama ; Macquarie : A Play Alex Buzo , 1971 single work drama ; The Chapel Perilous, Or, The Perilous Adventures of Sally Banner Dorothy Hewett , 1972 single work musical theatre ; The Removalists David Williamson , 1971 single work drama
Australian Drama : The Outlook in 1967 Leslie Rees , 1967 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 37 1967; (p. 39-44)
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