![]() ![]() This unusual, compelling love story was made into a film entitled Season of Passion and starred Academy Award-winners Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, John Mills and Angela Lansbury.īy Arrangement with the Licensor, Ray Lawler c/- Fran Moore. Old patterns must be broken, new ways found, as all four lovers come to face certain unpleasant truths about themselves. Every year Roo has brought a tinsel doll to Olive, his girl, as a gift to symbolize their relationship, but this seventeenth summer is different somehow. ![]() They have spent the past sixteen summers off with two ladies in a Southern Australian city. This compelling Australian play was a success in London and was hailed by critics in New York for its vigor, integrity, and realistic portrayal of two itinerant cane cutters: Barney, a swaggering little scrapper, and Roo, a big roughneck. It was one of the first truly naturalistic Australian theatre productions. Despite this, the film rights to the play were purchased and Season of Passion was released in 1959. The play is considered to be the most significant in Australian theatre history, and a "turning point", openly and authentically portraying distinctly Australian life and characters. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll was the first Australian play to tour internationally and enjoyed an award-winning season in England, as well as a less popular one in New York. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is an Australian play written by Ray Lawler and first performed at the Union Theatre in Melbourne on 28 November 1955. ![]()
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