Pacific Paradise (play)
| Pacific Paradise | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Dymphna Cusack |
| Date premiered | November 26, 1955 |
| Place premiered | Waterside Workers Theatre |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | nuclear war |
Pacific Paradise is a 1955 Australian play by Dymphna Cusack.[1] It was adapted on ABC radio in 1956 and 1957.[2][3][4][5]
By 1962 the play had been produced in New Zealand, the UK, Japan. Latin America, the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Germany, China, Albania, North Korea, Rumania, Bulgaria, Cuba, Iceland.
Premise
[edit]The play tells of the island of Moluka in the South Pacific, where the enlightened inhabitants live an almost Utopian existence under the rule of a white man, Simon Hoad, to whose family the island was given by Queen Victoria a century ago. Hoad is married to a native woman and has a daughter Laloma.
Their existence is threatened when they are informed that a new super-bomb is to be exploded on a neighbouring island and that they must be evacuated.
Scientists and officers visit Moluka to put their case and bring pressure. Hoad refuses to leave and seeks to enlist the sympathies of people all over the world in his fight to be allowed to survive in his island paradise.
References
[edit]- ^ "PACIFIC PARADISE". Tribune. No. 921. New South Wales, Australia. 16 November 1955. p. 6. Retrieved 15 July 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Dymphna Cusack: writer Of conviction". Tribune. No. 2214. New South Wales, Australia. 11 November 1981. p. 13. Retrieved 15 July 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "RADIO PLAYS for NEXT WEEK". ABC Weekly. 24 January 1956. p. 20.
- ^ "A.B.C. Radio plays for the week". ABC Weekly. 2 October 1957. p. 14.
- ^ "Pacific Paradise a moving drama". Tribune. No. 924. New South Wales, Australia. 7 December 1955. p. 8. Retrieved 15 July 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
[edit]- Pacific Paradise at Austlit