Sky without Birds
1952 Australian stage play by Oriel Gray
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Sky without Birds is a 1952 Australian stage play by Oriel Gray.
Written byOriel Gray
Date premieredMarch 15, 1952[1]
Place premieredNew Theatre, Sydney
Original languageEnglish
| Sky without Birds | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Oriel Gray |
| Date premiered | March 15, 1952[1] |
| Place premiered | New Theatre, Sydney |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | drama |
The play made its debut at the New Theatre in Sydney. It was then produced in Adelaide[2] and Brisbane.
Radio adaptation
The play was adapted for radio by the ABC in 1952.[3]
The play was produced again in 1957.[4]
Leslie Rees called it "a courageous tackling of a current social theme, with sensitive writing and feeling, but (in the stage version) too sluggish a movement towards a resolution. In the radio version, it played well."[5]
Premise
At a railway settlement on the Nullarbor Plain, a group of Australians is joined by an immigrant, who is Jewish. He falls in love with a married woman.