![]() Plays and playwrights go in and out of fashion but some endure and speak to each subsequent generation. This ‘off-season’ proves challenging for them all. One of the barmaids has ‘settled down’ and married a city bloke so a replacement date has to be found. ![]() This seventeenth summer everything is different. From the canefields to the city, an iconic Australian story of passion, bittersweet romance and the yearning for lost youth.Ī beautifully observed, humorous and poignant play, Ray Lawler’s much loved tale of two Queensland cane cutters who for 16 years have worked up north in the brutal sugar cane fields and travelled back to Melbourne to meet up for five months of partying and romance with their barmaid girlfriends. ![]()
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