Brumby Innes

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Brumby Innes
Based onBrumby Innes
by Katharine Susannah Prichard
Written byKatharine Susannah Prichard
StarringDennis Miller
Lynette Curran
Vic Marsh
Peter Cummins
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time75 mins
Original release
NetworkNetwork 10
Release26 June 1973 (1973-06-26)

Brumby Innes is a play by Katharine Susannah Prichard, written in the 1920s but not performed professionally until 1972. A TV film adaptation was broadcast in 1973.[1]

Premise

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A station manager lives alone in the outback except for his best friend and local black women. A white woman arrives.

Prichard's play had been written in the 1920s. In 1927 it won a competition for best Australian play.[2][3]

It was performed in 1972 at The Pram Factory, Melbourne in an Australian Performing Group and Nindethana Theatre co-production.[4][5][6]

TV adaptation

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References

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  1. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p20
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  4. ^ "Pram Factory Recollections" by John Smythe accessed 22 June 2013
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