 Event |
A Bill of Divorcement
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| Venue |
Prince of Wales Theatre, Hobart, TAS |
| First Date |
7 December 1927 |
| Opening Date |
7 December 1927 |
| Last Date |
9 December 1927 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Amateur |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
In this cleverly-built play Miss Dane, starting from a hypothetical effect of a law recognising insanity of five years' standing as a ground for divorce, presents a conflict between applied eugenics on the one hand and the conservative forces of a section of the church on the other. Hilary Fairfield, declared insane after suffering shell-shock in the war, is kept for fifteen years in an asylum, and his wife, Margaret, has at length secured a divorce under the new law, and is about to marry Gray Meredith. Hilary escapes from the asylum, and reaches home just after a telephone message has infor |
| Description Source |
Reviewer's Opinion |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Drama
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| Subjects |
Divorce
War trauma
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Resources |
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| Works |
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| Text Nationality |
England
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Newspaper |
The Mercury, 8 December 1927, p. 13 |
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| Event Identifier |
96969 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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