The Torrents

The Torrents
Written by Oriel Gray
Date premiered 1955
Original language English
Genre melodrama

The Torrents is a 1955 Australian play about an attempt to bring irrigation to a former gold mining town.

In 1955 it was voted best play that year by the Playwrights' Advisory Board, alongside Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.[1]

Adaptations

It was adapted for radio by the ABC in 1956.[2]

It was filmed for TV in 1969 as part of the ABC anthology drama series Australian Plays. The production starred Barbara Stephens, Ken Shorter and Alan Hopgood.[3]

It was also adaptd into the musical A Bit o' Petticoat.[4]

References

  1. ↑ David Fiorovanti, "Oriel Gray, 'playwright of ideas', dies aged 83", The Age, 3 July 2003 accessed 24 January 2013
  2. ↑ "Worth Reporting.". The Australian Women's Weekly (National Library of Australia). 22 February 1956. p. 31. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "TELEVISION.". The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) (ACT: National Library of Australia). 11 December 1969. p. 33. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "A Bit o' Petticoat at Australianmusicals.com accessed 24 January 2013

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