The Dingo (radio play)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dingo is a 1940 Australian radio play by Vance Palmer based on his short story of the same name.[1]
Leslie Rees wrote the play "has much of Vance Palmer’s characteristic skill in dual plot- weaving, all his precise knowledge of people and places, his ability to avoid an obvious denouement, along with what some would say is a temperamental swerving from direfct conflict. Itis a play of symbol, a story-telling technique that the author has mastered."[2]
Wireless Weekly said "Only once in a while comes a play as arresting and unusual as Vance Palmer’s “The Dingo,’’... Without flagrantly departing from orthodox play-form, it suggests something new in drama. It suggests that life itself can be drama, without laborious machinations and exploitation of the long arm of coincidence... A brief gem of a play."[3]
The play was popular and was produced again in 1944. It was one of several Palmer stories set in Queensland.[4]