Event | The One Day of the Year | |||||||
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Venue | Pocket Playhouse, Sydenham, NSW | |||||||
First Date | 5 September 1964 | |||||||
Opening Date | 5 September 1964 | |||||||
Last Date | 12 September 1964 | |||||||
Dates Estimated | No | |||||||
Status | Amateur | |||||||
World Premiere | No | |||||||
Description | About the Cook family and their friend Wacka, a Gallipoli veteran. Alf Cook is also a returned serviceman and can only relate positively to his identity as a soldier on one day of the year - ANZAC Day. A university student, Hughie Cook, helps his girlfriend Jan write an article criticising Anzac Day, which upsets his ex-serviceman father, Alf. The play was inspired by an article in the University of Sydney newspaper Honi Soit criticising Anzac Day and Seymour's own observations of how ex-servicemen behaved on that day. The character of Alf was based on Seymo | |||||||
Description Source | Website | |||||||
Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | |||||||
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Drama
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Subjects |
Anzac
Australian National Identity Family War memorials |
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Text Nationality | Australia | |||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||
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Event Identifier | 115381 | |||||||
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