Sabotage (radio play)
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Genredrama play
Running time60 mins (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
Country of originAustralia
LanguageEnglish
| Genre | drama play |
|---|---|
| Running time | 60 mins (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Hosted by | ABC |
| Written by | Catherine Shepherd |
| Directed by | John Cairns |
| Original release | 4 December 1940 |
Sabotage is a 1940 Australian radio play by is a radio play by Catherine Shepherd. It imagines what it might be like to turn into a fifth column in Australia.[1]
Leslie Rees called it a play that "predicates a tragedy which, having happened to others in Holland, Norway and elsewhere, might easily happen to persons in our own midst."[2]
The play was performed again in 1941.[3]
A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library.[4]
Wireless Weekly called it "perhaps the most penetrating piece of drama she [Catherine Shepherd] has given radio to date" and "shows with valuable clarity the insidious appeal of Nazi concepts to the man who is tired of democracy’s cumbersome working."[5]