Shadows Alive (radio play)
Shadows Alive is a 1933 Australian radio play about bushranger Martin Cash by Hobart journalist Frederick Stanley Shaw (1878–1964).[1]
The play was first performed on radio in Hobart in 1933.[2] It was broadcast nationally in June 1935 in a new production.[3][4]
According to contemporary reports, "in this play considerable licence has been taken with circumstances, and although based on Martin Cash's own story, it is not claimed in detail to be an accurate presentation of events."[5]
The play starts with seventy year old Cash living in Glenorchy having flashbacks to his old life.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Morrison, Ian (1 November 2018). "Two forgotten bushranger plays". State Library and Tasmanian Archives Blog.
- ^ "BROADCASTING". The Mercury. Vol. CXXXIX, no. 20, 610. Tasmania, Australia. 28 August 1933. p. 4. Retrieved 6 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "BROADCASTING". Townsville Daily Bulletin. Vol. LVII, no. 149. Queensland, Australia. 24 June 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 6 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australasian Radio Relay League (June 28, 1935), "SATURDAY June 29", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-735501105, retrieved 6 May 2024 – via Trove
- ^ a b "Wireless Listeners". Voice. Vol. 6, no. 34. Tasmania, Australia. 26 August 1933. p. 7. Retrieved 6 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.