The Day Before Tomorrow

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Event The Day Before Tomorrow
Venue Riverside Theatre, Barton, ACT
First Date 6 April 1956
Last Date 5 May 1956
Dates Estimated No
Status Amateur
World Premiere Yes
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
Peter Adamson Actor Charlie
Jeremy Beckett Actor Robert Rawlings
Lyndsay Gardiner Actor Eunice Lockwood
Lauraine Hicks Actor Carolyn Jackson
Pat Hutchinson Actor Mary Jackson
Bert Johnson Actor Private Mason
Ken Kinsman Actor Sergeant Brown
Rodney Smith Actor Captain Field
John Starey Actor Malcolm Williams
Ric Throssell Actor Alan Jackson
Anne Godfrey-Smith Director
Ric Throssell Playwright
Barbara Shanahan Set Designer
Resources
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Newspaper The Canberra Times, 20 March 1954, 4
Book K. Brisbane (Ed.) 'Plays of the 50s', Currency Press, Sydney 2004
Web list of productions of the Canberra Repertory Society taken from website http://www.canberrarep.org.au/prevseas.html 8 Nov 2006
Australian Drama Project (UQ) Key DAYBEFORT
Book John McCallum, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2009
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 70151