Awake My Love
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| Source | Philip Parsons, Victoria Chance, Companion To Theatre In Australia, Currency Press with Cambridge University Press, Sydney, NSW, 1995 | |
| Page | 76 | |
| Date Issued | 1995 | |
| Language | English | |
| Citation | Richard Lane, Awake My Love, Companion To Theatre In Australia, 1995, 76 | |
| Data Set | AusStage | |
| Resource Identifier | 59074 | |
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Play in three acts by Max Afford. premiere 4 September 1947, Independent Theatre, Sydney. Cast: Paul O'Loughlin, Kevin Brennan. Designer: Thelma Afford. Director: Doris Fitton. published Brisbane: University of Queensland Press 1974.
With this play, originally titled Colonel Light-The Founder, Max Afford won the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper's first prize for a play to celebrate South Australia's centenary in 1936. He rewrote it as Awake My Love, incorporating love interest into a historical drama based on the life of Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia. The play is set in the years 1837-39 and deals mainly with the conflict between Light and autocratic Governor Hindmarsh over the site of the city of Adelaide. The playwright's wife, Thelma Afford designed the decor and costumes.