The One Day Of The Year

Author: Alan Seymour

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  • : $20.00 AUD
  • : 9780207133305
  • : ANGUS & ROBERTSON
  • : HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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  • : December 1988
  • : 190mm X 133mm X 9mm
  • : Australia
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Barcode 9780207133305
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Description

Undoubtedly one of Australia's favourite plays, The One Day of the Year explores the universal theme of fatherson conflict against the background of the beery haze and the heady, nostalgic sentimentality of Anzac Day. It is a play to make us question a standard institution - Anzac Day, the sacred cow among Australian annual celebrations - but it is the likeability and genuineness of the characters that give the play its memorable qualities: Alf, the nobody who becomes a somebody on this day of days; Mum, the anchor of the family; Hughie, their son, with all the uncertainties and rebelliousness of youth; and Wacka, the Anzac, with his simple, healing wisdom.