We Find the Bunyip
1955 Australian play by Ray Mathew
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We Find the Bunyip is a 1955 Australian play by Ray Mathew. It is a comedy set in an Australian country pub.
Written byRay Mathew
Date premieredAugust 14, 1955
Place premieredWollongong Pioneer Hall, Wollongong
Original languageEnglish
| We Find the Bunyip | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Ray Mathew |
| Date premiered | August 14, 1955 |
| Place premiered | Wollongong Pioneer Hall, Wollongong |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | comedy |
It was highly commended in a competition from the Playwrights' Advisory Board that was won by Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and The Torrents.[1] The play was produced at Sydney's Independent Theatre in a production sponsored by the Elizabethan Theatre Trust.[2][3] The Sydney Morning Herald praised its humour and observation through criticised the lack of story.[4]
The Bulletin praised the script as "lively, comic, full of love and grog, possibly a bit squalid, but with an underlying or pervading atmosphere of poetry."[5]