Ask No Questions (play)

Ask No Questions is a 1940 Australian stage play by Gwen Meredith.[1] It had an all-female cast.[2] Meredith wrote it at the request of Doris Fitton who wanted some plays without no men, because male actors were hard to get with the war on.[3]

Ask No Questions
Written byGwen Meredith
Directed byDoris Fitton
Date premieredAugust 31, 1940 (1940-08-31)
Place premieredIndependent Theatre, Sydney
Original languageEnglish
Genrecomedy
SettingA private hospital

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "a delightful comedy".[4]

The Bulletin said "There are plenty of bright new gags. Perhaps it is that the ladies are merely indulging their natural habits, but whatever the reason there’s not a false note in the whole performance."[5]

A performance of the play was broadcast on radio in 1941.[6]

Premise

A jealous, neurotic wife of a brilliant surgeon suspects every woman who meets her husband of being his mistress.

References
  1. "Gwen Meredith". Barrier Daily Truth. Vol. XXXVII, no. 11, 308. New South Wales, Australia. 6 January 1945. p. 3. Retrieved 12 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Theatre's First Anniversary". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. V, no. 140. New South Wales, Australia. 2 September 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 12 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "No Men To Act On Amateur Stage". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. V, no. 299. New South Wales, Australia. 6 March 1941. p. 12. Retrieved 12 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "New Comedy". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 32, 036. New South Wales, Australia. 2 September 1940. p. 3. Retrieved 12 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Stage and Concert – "Peacocks in Paradise"", The Bulletin., John Ryan Comic Collection (specific issues), Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald (Vol. 61 No. 3160 (4 Sep 1940)), 1880, ISSN 0007-4039, nla.obj-593018699, retrieved 12 September 2023 – via Trove
  6. Australasian Radio Relay League, "Cloncerts — Little Theatres", The wireless weekly: the hundred per cent Australian radio journal, Sydney: Wireless Press (Vol. 36 No. 26 (June 28, 1941)), nla.obj-715024381, retrieved 12 September 2023 – via Trove
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