Currency Press, 2015

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...A joyful portrait of the summer of the first doll, in which a chance encounter brings Olive and Emma, Roo and Barney, into the shabby Carlton terrace to begin a seventeen-year journey of seasonal love and argument...

Currency Press, 2015

playtext

Acts: 2, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...The middle play of Ray Lawler’s Doll Trilogy, set during World War II in late winter, when Barney and Roo are on leave from the army. Other Times is the fulcrum of the three plays in which the characters stop being kids and become adults...

Currency Press, 2015

playtext

Acts: 3, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...No play has been more important to the history of Australian theatre than Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. When it first hit the stage in 1955, it drew a unanimous response from audiences unused to seeing the Australian character so vividly...