Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, a New PlayThis ground-breaking drama concludes the "Doll Trilogy" by Australian playwright Ray Lawler. "The summer that the story spans marks the seventeenth year of an annual tradition in the lives of the characters, wherein two masculine sugarcane cutters, Arthur "Barney" Ibbot and Reuben "Roo" Webber, travel south to Melbourne for five months of frivolity and celebration with two city women, Olive Leech and Nancy (bringing with them as a gift a kewpie doll, hence the name). One of the women, Nancy, has apparently gotten married just months ago, and she is not present in the play, so in her place Olive has invited Pearl Cunningham to partake in the tradition. The other women present in the play are Kathie "Bubba" Ryan, a 22-year old girl who has been coveting Olive and Nancy's lifestyle from her neighbouring house almost all her life, and Emma Leech, Olive's cynical, irritable but wise mother."-- Wikipedia. |
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ain't anythin anyway arch arguin asked back veranda BARNEY turns Barney's beer bein birds of paradise bloke bottles boys BUBBA C'mon comin d'yer doin DOWD dunno Elizabethan Theatre EMMA everythin exits eyes fellers flamin French windows front door front veranda gettin give goin gunna hand havin hell howlin JOHN SUMNER Johnnie Johnnie Dowd kewpie doll kitchen last night laugh lay-off livin look lookin lot of lovin mantelpiece mornin Nancy never nods North Melbourne nothin offstage OLIVE moves Olive tell Olive's oughta pause PEARL piano pick pretty races RAY LAWLER reckon Roo and Barney Roo's runnin s'pose sayin season seventeenth doll sideboard silly singin somethin sort stairs Staring taxi tell tellin there's thing told tryin upstairs walk walkin What's the matter wimmen woman workin wrong y'know