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The Neighbours (radio play)

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The Neighbours
Genredrama play
Running time60 mins (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Written byAlexander Turner
Directed byJohn Cairns
Original release8 March 1945[1]

The Neighbours is a 1945 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was one of Turner's most highly regarded plays.[2] He based it on the town of Geraldton, where Turner had lived.[3]

The play came equal first in a 1944 ABC playwriting competition (along with Safe Horizon by Jon Cleary), out of 234 entries.[4]

Reviewing the play, Leslie Rees wrote "no writer has so specifically and sharply caught the peculiar glint of Westralian light as Turner."[5]

A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland.[6]

Premise

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The breaking up of a family during the evacuation from Geraldton in 1942.

References

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  1. ^ "Prize-winning A.B.C. play", ABC Weekly, 7 (9), Sydney: ABC, 3 March 1945, retrieved 29 January 2024 – via Trove
  2. ^ "Alexander Turner Studio Portrait", ABC Weekly, 21 (26), Sydney: ABC, 1 July 1959, retrieved 29 January 2024 – via Trove
  3. ^ "Local and General". Geraldton Guardian and Express. Vol. XVII, no. 3610. Western Australia. 18 April 1945. p. 2. Retrieved 29 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Prize-winning plays in A.B.C. Contest", ABC Weekly, 7 (6), Sydney: ABC, 10 February 1945, retrieved 29 January 2024 – via Trove
  5. ^ "Drama Chronicle", Meanjin Papers, 4 (3), Brisbane: C. Christesen, Spring 1945, retrieved 29 January 2024 – via Trove
  6. ^ The Neighbours at Fryer Library