A Sport from Hollowlog Flat explained

A Sport from Hollowlog Flat
Author:Arthur Wright
Country:Australia
Language:English
Publisher:NSW Bookstall Company
Release Date:1915

A Sport from Hollowlog Flat is a 1915 novel by Arthur Wright.[1] It consisted of a series of short stories he had published previously for various magazines.[2]

Plot

A city clerk is fired due to over fondness for horse racing. He sinks lower and lower, playing two up and even trying to con a visitor from the country, the "sport" from Hollow Log Flat. However the sport takes pity on him and takes him to the bush, where the clerk redeems himself.[3]

Earlier publication

Some of the material had been published prior:

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald said that "Mr. Wright is quite in his element in his descriptions of construction camps, country race meetings, and tho Iniquities connected therewith, and... he gives us some graphic and occasionally humorous pictures of various phases of life outback."[4]

Theatre adaptation

A Sport of Hollow Log Flat
Premiere:1927
Orig Lang:English
Genre:rural comedy

Stage rights were optioned almost immediately by the Bert Bailey Company, which had enjoyed success with adaptations of Australian rural stories, and in 1916 the Company announced it would soon present a stage version of the book.[5] [6] [7]

However the play did not appear to be produced by Bailey. It emerged in 1927 in a production from William Ayr and his Bush Players, who had worked with E. J. Cole.[8] This production was seen in the bush by Benjamin Fuller when he was on holiday; Fuller liked it and the play transferred to Melbourne in August 1928 for a successful run.[9] [10] The production then moved to Sydney and toured around Australia.[11]

One critic described the Melbourne production as "a farcical comedy on very broad lines, with little attempt at character depiction or any convincing atmosphere."[12]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: NEW PUBLICATIONS. . . NSW . 6 March 1915 . 28 September 2014 . 2. EVENING. National Library of Australia.
  2. News: PUBLICATIONS, RECEIVED. . . 16 March 1915 . 28 September 2014 . 7 . National Library of Australia.
  3. News: AUSTRALIAN NOVEL. . The Evening News. Sydney . 24 February 1915 . 28 September 2014 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
  4. News: SOME NEW NOVELS. . . 20 March 1915 . 28 September 2014 . 8 . National Library of Australia.
  5. News: On and Off the Stage. . . Melbourne . 31 August 1916 . 28 September 2014 . 13 . National Library of Australia.
  6. News: GREENROOM GOSSIP. . . Melbourne . 14 September 1916 . 28 September 2014 . 42 . National Library of Australia.
  7. News: AUSTRALIAN PLAYS. . . Sydney . 31 December 1916 . 28 September 2014 . 17 . National Library of Australia.
  8. News: COLE'S DRAMATIC PLAYERS. . . 20 January 1927 . 28 September 2014 . 12 . National Library of Australia.
  9. News: MUSIC AND DRAMA. . . Melbourne . 6 August 1928 . 28 September 2014 . 15 . National Library of Australia.
  10. News: "THE WHITE TERROR". . . Sydney . 24 July 1929 . 28 September 2014 . 5 . National Library of Australia.
  11. News: Advertising. . The Evening News. Sydney . 31 October 1928 . 28 September 2014 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
  12. News: "A SPORT FROM HOLLOW LOG FLAT". . . Melbourne . 9 August 1928 . 28 September 2014 . 26 . National Library of Australia.

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