Sky without Birds

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Sky without Birds
Original languageEnglish
Written byOriel Gray
Genredrama
Premiere
DateMarch 15, 1952 (1952-03-15)[1]
PlaceNew Theatre, Sydney

Sky without Birds is a 1952 Australian stage play by Oriel Gray.

The play made its debut at the New Theatre in Sydney. It was then produced in Adelaide[2] and Brisbane.

Radio adaptation

The play was adapted for radio by the ABC in 1952.[3]

The play was produced again in 1957.[4]

Leslie Rees called it "a courageous tackling of a current social theme, with sensitive writing and feeling, but (in the stage version) too sluggish a movement towards a resolution. In the radio version, it played well."[5]

Premise

At a railway settlement on the Nullarbor Plain, a group of Australians is joined by an immigrant, who is Jewish. He falls in love with a married woman.

References

  1. "Sky Without Birds opens Carnival Drama festival". Tribune. No. 732. New South Wales, Australia. 19 March 1952. p. 11. Retrieved 11 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Contrasting Types In Australian Play". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. 95, no. 29, 305. South Australia. 13 September 1952. p. 5. Retrieved 11 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Radio Repertory — 'Sky without Birds'". The Sydney Jewish News. Vol. XIII, no. 42. New South Wales, Australia. 22 August 1952. p. 4. Retrieved 11 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Radio plays for next week", ABC Weekly, 19 (10), Sydney, 9 March 1957, retrieved 11 October 2023 – via Trove
  5. Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards An Australian Drama. p. 127.