| Naked Possum | |
| Director: | Noel Rubie |
| Setting: | Malaya |
| Place: | Independent Theatre, Sydney |
| Orig Lang: | Australia |
| Subject: | Malayan Emergency |
| Genre: | drama |
Naked Possum is a 1956 Australian play by Barbara Vernon. It was her first play performed in Sydney and is one of the few Australian plays to examine the Malayan Emergency.[1] [2]
Leslie Rees described it as "something of a damp squib."[3]
The Sydney Morning Herald called it "ripe old melodrama" with "stale situations and limping cliches".[4]
However The Bulletin said "it has a remarkably attractive set.. and a most impressive performance by Owen Weingott, while the plot has sufficient intricacy and suspense to keep one guessing."
During the Malayan Emergency, Australian troops looking for Communists arrive at a temple in the jungle. They meet the widow of a murdered planter who tries to seduce the soldiers.