About the play
This compelling Australian play was a success in London and was hailed by critics in New York for its vigor, integrity, and realistic portrayal of two itinerant cane cutters: Barney, a swaggering little scrapper, and Roo, a big roughneck.
They have spent the past sixteen summers off with two ladies in a Southern Australian city. Every year Roo has brought a tinsel doll to Olive, his girl, as a gift to symbolize their relationship, but this seventeenth summer is different somehow. Old patterns must be broken, new ways found, as all four lovers come to face certain unpleasant truths about themselves.
Cast
BUBBA RYAN
PEARL CUNNINGHAM
OLIVE LEECH
BARNEY IBBOT
EMMA LEECH
ROO WEBBER
JOHNNIE DOWD
CHRISTINE BROCK
MARY BARTHOLOMEW
ANN MOLLART
TREVOR BARLOW
SANDY HOLLAND
STANLEY BURRELL
DEREK YEOMANS