Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

…local and international acclaim for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, a play naturalistic in character and idiom and universal in theme yet peculiarly Australian in its attitudes. Its success began something of a revival in Australian drama; it was followed by Alan Seymour’s The One Day of the Year (1961)…

…Elizabethan Theatre Trust chose his Summer of the Seventeenth Doll for its first staging of an original Australian play. Lawler played the lead in Melbourne (1956); the play’s success led to productions in London (1957; with Lawler again in the lead) and New York City (1958), and a film version…