Call Up Your Ghosts
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Written byDymphna Cusack
Date premiered6 October 1945
Place premieredNew Theatre, Melbourne
Original languageEnglish
| Call Up Your Ghosts | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Dymphna Cusack |
| Date premiered | 6 October 1945 |
| Place premiered | New Theatre, Melbourne |
| Original language | English |
Call Up Your Ghosts is a 1945 Australian stage play by Dymphna Cusack and Miles Franklin. It was a satire of the Australian publishing industry and its neglect of Australian writers, whose ghosts return to create trouble in a bookshop where their work is being used to prop up table legs.[1]
The play debuted at the New Theatre in Melbourne.[2]
It was joint winner of the New Theatre's One-act Play Competition of 1945 sharing first prize with Sailor's Girl by Ric Throssell. [3] The play was published in Penguin Anthology of Australian Women’s Writing, ed. Dale Spender, Ringwood, 1988.