Royal Mail is a 1939 Australian stage play by Alexander Turner.
It won Best Play at the 1939 Drama Festival in Perth.[1][2] It was recommended for production by the Playwrights' Advisory Board.[3]
The play was published in a collection of Turner's plays in 1945.[4][5]
Leslie Rees called it "only a half success" describing the play as a "series of tableaux of life in a Murchison gold-mining centre—a small world that is keenly observed and full of touches of humour of character and scene. There is utterly nothing derived here, but the play as a whole flounders because of insufficient energy of purpose and constructive design. It would seem that Turner is at home in the single situations appropriate to his (mostly) simple people, and so The Golden Journey, an atmospheric stage one-acter set on an inland railway station leading to the fields, really says just as much as does Royal Mail and is far more concise."[6]
References
- ^ "PRIZE PLAY". The West Australian. Vol. 55, no. 16, 549. Western Australia. 18 July 1939. p. 12. Retrieved 28 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (June 15, 1940), "Playwrights Of Australia Alexander Turner, W.A.", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, nla.obj-718490388, retrieved 28 January 2024 – via Trove
- ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (March 16, 1940), "Australian Plays For Stage", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, nla.obj-718411736, retrieved 28 January 2024 – via Trove
- ^ "A West Australian Dramatist". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 33, 505. New South Wales, Australia. 12 May 1945. p. 8. Retrieved 28 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "The Red Page", The Bulletin, 7 March 1945, nla.obj-540546334, retrieved 28 January 2024 – via Trove
- ^ Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards an Australian Drama. p. 100.
External links
- Royal Mail at Ausstage
This page was last edited on 6 March 2024, at 02:49