| Stockade | |
| Format: | verse drama |
| Runtime: | 60 mins |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Syndicates: | ABC |
| First Aired: | 1942 |
Stockade is a 1942 radio play by Richard Lane who regarded it as one of his most significant works.[1] It is a verse drama about the Eureka Rebellion. It tells the story though Bridget Shannahan who was on Bakery during the Stockade period. She was a real person, grandmother to Lane's then-wife.[2] [3]
It aired in 1942. Wireless Weekly called it "an artistic success". Other views were also positive.
The play was produced again in 1943, 1947[4] and in 1950.
Leslie Rees called it "a good free-verse treatment of a difficult subject, from a particular point of view."[5]