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Ned Kelly (play)
Ned Kelly is a 1942 radio play by Douglas Stewart about the outlaw Ned Kelly.
It was based on a stage play which was in turn adapted for television.
Stewart wanted to follow The Fire on the Snow "with a play that would be its reverse —a study of the heroic will perverted. Looking for a character who would thus be a kind of Miltonic Satan, a hero yet thoroughly bad, I thought about doing a celebrated New Zealand murderer, but decided he was too repulsive a figure to put on the stage. Then I thought of Ned Kelly.” He said he wanted his play to be “a study of the fascinating mixture of good and bad in Ned’s character — the boisterous good humor that made him popular, the arrogance that made him hated; the murderous impulses that could lead him to attempt to wreck a train; the amazing courage he showed when his plans went wrong; the laughter of the man and the loneliness of the outlaw; the pride that sustained him, and the pride that led to his destruction.”
"I have tried to show in the play that Ned Kelly is remembered because he stands for two things wholly and typically Australian — freedom and courage," said Stewart.
The play was originally written for stage then adapted into radio but was broadcast on radio first.
The play came first in the ABC's 1942 Bonus Play Competition (second was Fountains Beyond, third was Wheat Boat.) The ABC's Frank Clelow said the play "had faults in construction, but many outstanding and memorable qualities" praising "the quality of the verse, its always eloquent language, and its most successful characterisation."
The play was published in book form in 1943.
The play was first produced in 1942.
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Ned Kelly (play)
Ned Kelly is a 1942 radio play by Douglas Stewart about the outlaw Ned Kelly.
It was based on a stage play which was in turn adapted for television.
Stewart wanted to follow The Fire on the Snow "with a play that would be its reverse —a study of the heroic will perverted. Looking for a character who would thus be a kind of Miltonic Satan, a hero yet thoroughly bad, I thought about doing a celebrated New Zealand murderer, but decided he was too repulsive a figure to put on the stage. Then I thought of Ned Kelly.” He said he wanted his play to be “a study of the fascinating mixture of good and bad in Ned’s character — the boisterous good humor that made him popular, the arrogance that made him hated; the murderous impulses that could lead him to attempt to wreck a train; the amazing courage he showed when his plans went wrong; the laughter of the man and the loneliness of the outlaw; the pride that sustained him, and the pride that led to his destruction.”
"I have tried to show in the play that Ned Kelly is remembered because he stands for two things wholly and typically Australian — freedom and courage," said Stewart.
The play was originally written for stage then adapted into radio but was broadcast on radio first.
The play came first in the ABC's 1942 Bonus Play Competition (second was Fountains Beyond, third was Wheat Boat.) The ABC's Frank Clelow said the play "had faults in construction, but many outstanding and memorable qualities" praising "the quality of the verse, its always eloquent language, and its most successful characterisation."
The play was published in book form in 1943.
The play was first produced in 1942.