- Source: The Lawsons
The Lawsons was an Australian radio serial broadcast by the ABC and created and written by Gwen Meredith that ran daily from 21 February 1944 to 25 February 1949. It was a forerunner to the better known Blue Hills. The show began as a propaganda series to introduce modern farming methods. Meredith researched it at a station near Gunnedah. The serial was hugely popular immediately and ran for five years. Meredith adapted the series into a play and a novel.
Premise
The adventures of the Lawson family who live on a farm. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, Sue and Jean and their four boys Wally, Chris, Ted and Brian. Described as the typical Australian country folk, they raise sheep and poultry and grow wheat and vegetables, but are not as burlesque as Dad and Dave or Doreen and Ginger Mick.
Cast
Stage play
Meredith wrote a stage play version of the radio serial. It toured New South Wales regional areas in 1950 with a cast including Ed Devereaux. The play was presented by J.C. Williamson's Ltd.
= Cast of 1950 Tour
=Pamela Bygrave as Sue
George Simpson Lyttle as Mr Lawson
Jean Blue as Mrs. Lawson
Billee Lockwood as Hilda
Dorothea Dunstan as Emmy
Edward Devereaux as Ted Lawson
Peter Morris as Brian
Mary Bartholomew as Jean Lawson
Pat Penny as Max Ralston
Edmund Allison as Joe
Ben Lewin as Archie.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- The Lawsons
- Murder of the Lawson family
- Lawson
- Jeff Lawson
- Lawsons Bay Colony
- Nigel Lawson
- William Lawson's
- Pacolet River
- Dominic Lawson
- Hsiang–Lawson's conjecture
