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Playwright: Sydney Tomholt
Year: 1937
Type: Play
Edition: Published: Angus & Robertson Ltd. (Best Australian One Act Plays), 1937
Produced: In Sydney, 1937.

Synopsis

A woman – who has lost both her brother, and an un-named, unspoken love in the war – is undergoing her ritual of contemplation on the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance. She meets a stranger, there, who may or may not be a ghost from the past, and they form a mysterious bond throughout the night.

Narrative Locations

The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne region, Victoria  

Temporal setting: Circa 1937

Location notes:

The correlation is exact.

The Shrine of Remembrance is depicted as a lonely place, where lost souls – both the living and the dead – come to contemplate in silence. Fragments of the nearby city sneak in, however – the whine of trams, or the searchlight from a nearby tower that consistently invades the scene.

Quotes

A motor horn sounds faintly in the distance, and echo of the city. A searchlight from some distant tower flashes intermittently across the scene. The peculiar whine of an electric tram speeding swiftly on its way to or from the metropolis pierces like a poignant moon the silence of the night.

(p. 157)





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