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), "SATYRDAY 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.