Comets Soon Pass
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| Comets Soon Pass | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Dymphna Cusack |
| Date premiered | 8 October 1943 |
| Place premiered | Repertory Theatre, Perth |
| Original language | English |
| Setting | The house of Dr John Smith |
Comets Soon Pass is a 1943 Australian play by Dymphna Cusack. It won the 1943 WA Drama Festival Award.[1] (She had won it the year before with Morning Sacrifice.[2]) The play was produced in Perth and in army camps.[3] Leslie Rees called the play a "political-disquisitory".[4]
According to Cusack's biography the play "was her personal catharsis and artistic reprisal for the defection of her former lover, the novelist Xavier Herbert, and payback to the 'asparagus king' Gordon Edgell, who had tried to damn her publicly for her activism on behalf of unemployed youth."[5]
The play was published in a 1950 collection of Cusack's plays.[6][7]
A group gather in the house of a doctor during a flood. They include a squatter's wife, an artist and his wife (who is the ex-wife of the doctor), a trade union organiser and a young person.