Summer of the 17th Doll

Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll opened in Melbourne at the Russell Street Theatre in 1955. Within a year, according to Katharine Brisbane, it had become a household word, and by the time it reached a London stage in 1957, it was being hailed as the long-awaited proof that Australian drama had come of age. Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1956, Lindsay Browne pro claimed that:
"This fine play, untransplantably Australian in all its accents, gave Australian theatregoers the chance to feel as American audiences must have felt when O'Neill first began to assert American vitality and independence in drama, or the Irish must have felt when Synge gave them The Playboy Of The Western World."

The La Boite Production
Director: Sean Mee
Designer: Greg Clarke
Lighting Designer: Andrew Meadows
Sound Designer: Tyrone Noonan
Featuring Jonathan Brand, Laura Keneally, Caroline Kennison, Peter Marshall, Kaye Stevenson, Candice Storey and Scott Witt

La Boite Production Notes Part 1
La Boite Production Notes Part 2

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