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Title | Max Afford | |
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Source | Philip Parsons, Victoria Chance, Companion To Theatre In Australia, Currency Press with Cambridge University Press, Sydney, NSW, 1995 | |
Page | 33 | |
Date Issued | 1995 | |
Language | English | |
Citation | Richard Lane, Max Afford, Companion To Theatre In Australia, 1995, 33 | |
Resource Identifier | 59038 |
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During the 1940s, when Max Afford was the foremost writer of commercial radio serials in Australia, he diligently wrote stage plays and had commercial successes at a time when it was almost unknown for an Australian management to produce a local play. At the Theatre Royal on Sydney in 1944 J.C. Williamson’s produced his comedy-thriller Lady in Danger and his Mischief in the Air, a comedy set in Sydney commercial radio. Lady in Danger was also presented in New York City in 1944. In 1947 Independent Theatre in Sydney presented Afford’s Awake My Love, a rewriting of his Colonel Light – The Founder, which won the Adelaide Advertiser’s first prize for a play to celebrate the centenary of South Australia in 1936. His last play, Dark Enchantment, was produced at the Minerva Theatre in Sydney in 1949, and in 1950 it began a tour in England.