Call Up Your Ghosts
Call Up Your Ghosts is a 1945 Australian stage play by Dymphna Cusack and Miles Franklin. It was a satire of the Australian publishing industry and its neglect of Australian writers, whose ghosts return to create trouble in a bookshop where their work is being used to prop up table legs.[1]
The play debuted at the New Theatre in Melbourne.[2]
It was joint winner of the New Theatre's One-act Play Competition of 1945 sharing first prize with Sailor's Girl by Ric Throssell. [3] The play was published in Penguin Anthology of Australian Women’s Writing, ed. Dale Spender, Ringwood, 1988.
References
[edit]- ^ Marilla North, 'Cusack, Ellen Dymphna (Nell) (1902–1981)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cusack-ellen-dymphna-nell-12385/text22259, published first in hardcopy 2007, accessed online 14 March 2024.
- ^ "Advertising". The Herald. No. 21, 334. Victoria, Australia. 3 October 1945. p. 10. Retrieved 14 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "TWO PRIZE PLAYS". Tribune. No. 151. New South Wales, Australia. 28 September 1945. p. 4. Retrieved 14 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
[edit]- Call Up Your Ghosts at AustLit
- Call Up Your Ghosts at Ausstage