Lalor of Eureka
| Lalor of Eureka | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Leslie Rees |
| Date premiered | September 9, 1939 |
| Place premiered | New Theatre, Sydney[1] |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | Eureka Rebellion |
| Genre | historical drama |
Lalor of Eureka is a 1939 Australian stage play about the Eureka Rebellion by Leslie Rees.[2]
It won a New Theatre Play Award in 1940 for Best Australian Play of the Year.[3]
It was a number of plays on Eureka around this time, such as Blood on the Wattle and Stockade. Discussing them, Leslie Rees wrote:
Eurekea as a subject consistently defies the most energetic and sincere attempts to render it on a stage... the historical events are themselves too naturally and objectively dramatic. They are so dramatic, as well as complicated, that any potential author is likely to be inhibited from a truly creative exercise of his dramatist’s functions. A rebellion doesn’t make drama neither does the burning of a hotel or a callous digger hunt. What makes drama is the light of individual human character shining through those events, and the impact of one character on another with those events as driving forces.[4]
Radio adaptation
[edit]The play was produced for radio on the ABC in 1943.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "New Theatre League". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 31, 723. New South Wales, Australia. 2 September 1939. p. 9. Retrieved 22 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Stars of the Air". Manilla Express. Vol. XLVI, no. 71. New South Wales, Australia. 5 September 1944. p. 4. Retrieved 22 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ ""Lalor Of Eureka" Wins New Theatre Play Award". The Herald. No. 19, 664. Victoria, Australia. 23 May 1940. p. 14. Retrieved 22 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards an Australian Drama. p. 104.
- ^ "All the Programmes Sunday, April 18", ABC Weekly, 5 (16), Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 17 April 1943, nla.obj-1354081128, retrieved 22 October 2023 – via Trove
External links
[edit]- Lalor of Eureka at Ausstage