The Day Before Tomorrow

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Event The Day Before Tomorrow
Venue Riverside Theatre, Barton, ACT
Umbrella Event Victorian Drama League Festival
First Date 14 November 1956
Opening Date 14 November 1956
Last Date 14 November 1956
Dates Estimated No
Status Amateur
World Premiere No
Description The Jackson family struggle to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear explosion which has destroyed their suburb.
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Subjects Nuclear weapons
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Anne Godfrey-Smith Director
Ric Throssell Playwright
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web list of productions of the Canberra Repertory Society taken from website http://www.canberrarep.org.au/prevseas.html 8 Nov 2006
Book K. Brisbane (Ed.) 'Plays of the 50s', Currency Press, Sydney 2004
Book John McCallum, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2009
Australian Drama Project (UQ) Key DAYBEFORT
Newspaper The Canberra Times, 13 November 1956, 5
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 115690