Shoulder The Sky
''Shoulder the Sky'' is an Australian stage play by Dymphna Cusackabout canteen workers in Newcastle that was adapted for radio in 1945. History The play was written under the title ''They Also Serve''. This won an "additional prize" in a 1945 competition held by the Playwrights' Advisory Board (first prize was ''Sons of the Morning'', second was ''Positions Vacant'' while "highly commended" were ''Portrait of a Gentleman (play), Portrait of a Gentleman'' and ''The Gentle Warrior''.) Leslie Rees said the play "making a somewhat dangerous virtue of formlessness, has wit and bite and passion." He later called it "a trenchant, plotless, constantly unfolding view of the emotional and physical conditions brought by the war to our cities" adding: There are Saroyanesque characters—drunks, outcasts, lost souls—as well as ordinary soldiers and girls. There are cynical-sentimental attitudes, forceful criticisms of the maladjustments of life, bitterness, mordancy, and despair, matched by ...
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