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Plays in One Act – M.S. Armstrong [Thomas; Penny Dreadful; Drought] – Sydney 1958.

Short Description

The playwright Millicent Sylvia Armstrong [1888-1973] was born at Waverley in Sydney and along with her sisters attended Sydney University where she obtained a First in English Language.

She moved to London in 1914 to pursue a writing career but was soon involved in support services in WWI. Near the end of the war, she was a nurse in France and helped to rescue many from the advancing German Army for which she received the Croix de Guerre.

Later back in Australia she took to the land and writing short plays. Drought the third presented here won the 1923 Rupert Brooke Prize.

A scarce book published by Edwards & Shaw, Sydney in 1958. Slim octavo, sixty-nine pages. The first two Thomas and Penny Dreadful are what are commonly called “drawing room plays”. Penny Dreadful is particularly tense. Drought must be one of the shortest plays to convey such strong feelings ever written at eight pages.

Each play is beautifully introduced with a detailed description of the setting and an introduction to the nature of the characters.

We like it!

Three interesting plays by an Australian woman ahead of here times – very readable.

Price: $30.00

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