''Flood'' is a 1955 Australian play by
Eunice Hanger. It was one of her best known works.
The play was runner up in the famous 1955 playwriting competition run by the
Playwrights' Advisory Board which was won by ''
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''The Bulletin'' said "The play is at its best when it is documentary. Eunice Hanger is not afraid to organise the gathering into yerse-speaking groups in order to comment on the increasing danger and to visualise the havoc wrought in the town... With judicious pruning there is a good play here —a genuine outcrop in Queensland soil, enriching the whole Australian field."
Adaptation
The play was adapted for ABC radio in 1956 by
Catherine Shepherd
Catherine Shepherd is an English comedic actress, writer and director.
Career
In the early 2000s Shepherd appeared in several BBC Radio 4 comedies, as Daisy in the sitcom '' Think the Unthinkable'' alongside Marcus Brigstocke and David Mitchel ...
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Premise
A family is threatened by rising flood waters in a small Queensland country town.Janie Morrison, the daughter of a country school-teacher, is engaged to be married to a young doctor, Eric Mulray, but a few years earlier Eric was partly responsible for the accident that made a semi-cripple of Janie's brother. This and other dramas are brought out in the flood.
References
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External links
Floodat AustLit
1950s Australian plays
1955 plays
1956 Australian radio dramas
Australian radio dramas set in Queensland
Australian verse dramas