We Find the Bunyip

We Find the Bunyip is a 1955 Australian play by Ray Mathew. It is a comedy set in an Australian country pub.

We Find the Bunyip
Written byRay Mathew
Date premieredAugust 14, 1955 (1955-08-14)
Place premieredWollongong Pioneer Hall, Wollongong
Original languageEnglish
Genrecomedy

It was highly commended in a competition from the Playwrights' Advisory Board.[1] The play was produced at Sydney's Independent Theatre in a production sponsored by the Elizabethan Theatre Trust.[2][3] The Sydney Morning Herald praised its humour and observation through criticised the lack of story.[4]

The Bulletin praised the script as "lively, comic, full of love and grog, possibly a bit squalid, but with an underlying or pervading atmosphere of poetry."[5]

References
  1. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (17 September 1955), "AUSTRALIAN PLAY COMPETITION", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC, 17 (37), nla.obj-1540599251, retrieved 26 July 2023 – via Trove
  2. ""The 17th Doll"", The bulletin., John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 77 (3962), 18 Jan 1956, ISSN 0007-4039, nla.obj-694057937, retrieved 26 July 2023 – via Trove
  3. "SUNDRY SHOWS Stage and Music", The bulletin., John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 76 (3943), 7 Sep 1955, ISSN 0007-4039, nla.obj-693185891, retrieved 26 July 2023 – via Trove
  4. "Bush pub is setting of new comedy". The Sydney Morning Herald. 30 August 1955. p. 10.
  5. "SUNDRY SHOWS TALKIES THEATRE MUSIC ART Stage and Music", The bulletin., John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 76 (3941), 24 Aug 1955, ISSN 0007-4039, nla.obj-693175575, retrieved 26 July 2023 – via Trove
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