Rusty Bugles

Rusty Bugles

"Rusty Bugles" was a controversial Australian play written by Sumner Locke Elliott that toured extensively throughout Australia between 1948-1949 and achieved the notoriety of being closed down by the Chief Secretary's Office for obscenity. It was produced by Doris Fitton and Sydney's Independent Theatre company.

The publisher of the play, Currency Press, quotes Elliott as saying that "Rusty Bugles" was 'a documentary... Not strictly a play... it has no plot in the accepted sense'. Locke Elliott did not foresee that shortly after this, the genre of the theatre of the absurd would be established as 'legitimate' a dramatic form where plot and the delineation of character are less important than the insight offered into the implicit drama of most human interactions. [cite web
title =Introducing the Play
work =Sumner Locke Elliot's Rusty Bugles
publisher =Currency press
url =http://www.currency.com.au/page2610040.aspx
accessdate = 2007-09-11 ]

The Cast of "Rusty Bugles" (1948)

*Des Nolan ("The gig ape") - John Kingsmill
*Vic Richards - Ivor Bromley-Smith
*Sergeant Brooks - Sidney Chambers
*Rod Carsen - Ronald Frazer
*Andy Edwards ("The Little Corporal") - Robert Crome
* Otford - Alistair Roberts
* Mac - Frank O'Donnell
* Ollie - John Unicomb
* Chris - Kevin Healy
* Darky McClure - Lloyd Berrell
* Keghead Stephens - Ralph Peterson
* Corporal - doubled
* Ken Falcon ("Dean Maitland") - Michael Barnes
* First Private - Jack Wilkinson
* Second Private - James Lyons
* Bill Hendry (YMCA Sergeant) - Frank Curtain
* Private - Peter Hartland
* Jack Turner (Sigs Corporal) - doubled
* Sigs Private - doubled
* Sammy Kuhn - Kenneth Colbert

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