Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Steve Le Marquand & Helen Thomson in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Photography by Marcel Aucar
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Melbourne VIC 3000
For sixteen summers, Roo and Barney have spent their long lay-off from the cane-cutting season down in Melbourne having a high old time with two Carlton barmaids, Olive and Nancy.
It has been a carefree ritual that never looked like ending. But back for their seventeenth summer, the blokes find that Nancy is married and Olive has roped in a friend, Pearl, to take her place. And for a while they all do a fair job of kidding themselves that time has not finally caught up with them.
The day MTC premiered Ray Lawler's groundbreaking play in 1955 marked the beginning of modern Australian drama. This story of shattered illusions has been revived many times since, but never with such imagination and heart as in Neil Armfield's new production.
A Belvoir Production
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