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Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Traitors
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Traitors David Nettheim , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1983 8154495 1983 single work radio play

'Russia 1927: a society in which people's personal morality and their public politics become inseparable. Anna, seeing the rise of Stalin as a betrayal of the Revolution, is at odds as much with her friends as with her party '.

Source:

Radio Times, 1 September 1983, p.41.

Notes

  • Dedication: Traitors was written in memory of Victor Serge and is dedicated to Rhonda and Di Zetlin

Production Details

  • First produced by the Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory Theatre, Melbourne, 26 April 1979. Also produced in at the Nimrod Theatre, Sydney, 20 February 1980, and in London, 1980.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      ca. 1979 .
      Extent: 85 leavesp.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Typescript (photocopy)
      • Prologue, three acts and epilogue.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H1572
First known date: 1979
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Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.
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Works about this Work

Re-Reading Stephen Sewell's Traitors : Ideology and Gender in 'the Australian Play' G. K. H. Ley , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Drama , Spring vol. 48 no. 1 2005; (p. 108-117)
Stephen Sewell and the State of the Nation Denise Varney , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Radical Visions 1968-2008 : The Impact of the Sixties on Australian Drama 2011; (p. 239-266)
Some Contemporary Developments in Australian Drama: Louis Nowra and Stephen Sewell Brian Kiernan , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Papers : Yugoslavia, Europe and Australia 1983; (p. 183-189)
Stephen Sewell Mary Ann Hunter (interviewer), 1989 single work interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 14 1989; (p. 35-45)
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Last amended 14 Jun 2017 08:39:15
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Settings:
  • c
    Russia,
    c
    c
    Former Soviet Union,
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    Eastern Europe, Europe,
  • 1920s
  • 1940s
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