The Doll is a national classic The Torrents had, until this year, only been performed professionally once: in Adelaide in 1996. Lawler’s play actually tied with another one: The Torrents by Oriel Gray. And it all started when the Doll won the prestigious Playwrights’ Advisory Board Competition prize in 1955.īut it didn’t win alone. It is regularly an assigned literary text in Australian high schools and universities, and it paved the way for a storytelling identity in its image: Australian naturalism, the mundane tragedies of life, the personal and the domestic writ epic. Ray Lawler’s play about imploding personal and national ideas of mateship, loyalty and family has been performed more than 1,000 times. A hefty chunk of contemporary Australian playwriting can trace its narrative, thematic and structural lineage back to Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
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