AustLit
History
Latest Winners / Recipients
-
Year: 1943
winner Comets Soon Pass 1950 single work drama
— Appears in: Three Australian Three-Act Plays 1950; (p. 1-87) -
Year: 1942
winner y Morning Sacrifice 1940-1943 (Manuscript version)x400877 Z43153 1940 single work drama'Set in the staff room of an all-girl school, 'Morning Sacrifice' interrogates the stifling sexual morality of post-War Australia. The all female cast are divided by the conflict between a waning Victorian sensibility and the sexual freedom of the coming age.
'The play is a powerful critique of how women’s sexuality was controlled by law, and hostility between women formed a barrier to emancipation.'
(Source: publisher's blurb)
-
Year: 1941
winner y Quiet Night 1941 Sydney : RAAF Educational Services , 1943 Z561856 1941 single work drama'Setting her action in a large hospital, Miss Blewett has undertaken no simple task in dealing with nursing from both its practical and psychological aspects, complicated in two cases by individual emotional strains. The play covers the hours of one hectic night in the hospital, in which the emotional preoccupations of several of the staff intrude on their professional duties' ('Australian Play' Argus 10 March 1941, 6).
Characters
SISTER MURPHY of the day staff at St. Agnes’
PROBATIONER
SISTER RANKIN (FRANCES)
NURSE RUTH SINCLAIR 3rd Year
NURSE JEAN SPARROW 1st Year
NURSE WILLIAMS 1st Year
NURSE PATSY CURTIN Junior
NURSE SMITH
NURSE ROBERTS
RUSSEL KEANE A Patient
DR. ANGUS MACREADY Resident Doctor at the Hospital
MRS. LEILA CLAYTON A patient
THE MATRON
DR. RICHARD CLAYTON
-
Year: 1940
winner y Penalty Clause 1940 (Manuscript version)x401412 Z952200 1940 single work drama -
Year: 1939
winner (Australia-wide play contest) Royal Mail 1944 single work drama
— Appears in: Royal Mail and Other Plays 1944; (p. 15-78)