Drama-Summer of the seventeenth doll

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Summer of The Seventeenth Doll writeen by Ray Lawler is one of the first internationally acclaimed Australain plays.

Plot: It is Australia in the 1950's. For the past sixteen years, sugarcane cutters, Roo and Barney, have gone to Melbourne every lay-off season to live with their barmaid girlfriends, Olive and Nancy. Things are different from the start of the seventeenth summer. Nancy has left to get married. There has been a fight on the canefields, and Roo, his position usurped as the toughest worker on the fields, arrives with his ego battered and no money. Barney, once the Casanova of the canefields, is having trouble wooing Nancy's replacement, the deeply skeptical Pearl. Amid the emotional chaos, Olive tries valiantly to maintain the reality and the dream of the past s

Realism --> looks at real situations and relations; explores the poetic dimension including the symbolism of the play.

We see what happens as close as possible to real life

"Funny thing. I imagined this place pretty often. Oh, of course I've never been here, it's just the reputation that's been built up among the boys. I reckon you could say it's almost famous up north."

Note the use of costume and set - note change of costume for Pearl as she feels more comfortable with the situation - from her 'good black' to her more casual clothing. Also note the set description including the encroaching greenery - perhaps symbolic of the reality that is also intruding on their illusion. The butterflies and birds and other decorations all contribute to the illusion, and are part of wh

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Roo Barney, Australian Note, Olive Naturalism, Roo Olive, Olive Nancy, Roo Olive's, Naturalism Realism, Pearl Amid, Barney Casanova, Key Quotes, roo barney, real life, lay-off season, past sixteen, slang language, olive roo,

Approximate Word count = 526
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Arts

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