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Stockade (play)

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1942 radio play by Richard Lane Radio show
Stockade
Genreverse drama
Running time60 mins
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
SyndicatesABC
Written byRichard Lane
Original release1942

Stockade is a 1942 radio play by Richard Lane who regarded it as one of his most significant works. It is a verse drama about the Eureka Rebellion. It tells the story though Bridget Shannahan who was on Bakery during the Stockade period. She was a real person, grandmother to Lane's then-wife.

It aired in 1942. Wireless Weekly called it "an artistic success". Other views were also positive.

The play was produced again in 1943, 1947 and in 1950.

Leslie Rees called it "a good free-verse treatment of a difficult subject, from a particular point of view."

References

  1. Vagg, Stephen (August 27, 2022). "3 Forgotten Australian Television Plays". Filmink. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  2. "IT HAPPENED THIS WEEK". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. III, no. 37. New South Wales, Australia. 26 July 1942. p. 8. Retrieved 24 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "The "A.B.C. Weekly" and the "Listener-in"". Advocate. Vol. LXXV, no. 4641. Victoria, Australia. 30 July 1942. p. 9. Retrieved 24 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Miners' Fight", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 37 (30), Sydney: Wireless Press, August 1, 1942, retrieved 24 August 2023 – via Trove
  5. "Coming on the Air", ABC Weekly, 4 (30), Sydney, 25 July 1942, retrieved 24 August 2023 – via Trove
  6. "Lane's Eureka", ABC Weekly, 5 (48), Sydney, 27 November 1943, retrieved 24 August 2023 – via Trove
  7. "A.B.C. Ploy-lovers' Guide", ABC Weekly, 9 (40), Sydney, 4 October 1947, retrieved 24 August 2023 – via Trove
  8. ""EUREKA STOCKADE" IN SERMON FORM". Smith's Weekly. Vol. XXIX, no. 34. New South Wales, Australia. 18 October 1947. p. 20. Retrieved 24 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ABC Weekly, vol. 12, Sydney, 2 December 1950, retrieved 24 August 2023 – via Trove{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards an Australian Drama. p. 102.
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