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Alan Seymour OAM (6 June 1927 – 23 March 2015) was an Australian playwright and author. He is best known for the play The One Day of the Year (1958). His international reputation rests not only on this early play, but also on his many screenplays, television scripts and adaptations of novels for film and television.
Apr 1, 2015 · Last modified on Wed 1 Jul 2020 13.15 EDT. The dramatist Alan Seymour, who has died aged 87, made his name both in his native Australia and in Britain with his play The One Day of the Year, which ...
Trish Wadley Productions presents Alan Seymour’s iconic play, The One Day of the Year, created exclusively with an all star cast to commemorate ANZAC Day 202...
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Mar 25, 2015 · Alan Seymour was born in Fremantle in Western Australia on June 6, 1927. His working-class Anglican parents already had five daughters - May, Eleanor, Mabel, Winifred and Mary - the youngest 14 ...
Written by. Alan Seymour. Date premiered. 20 July 1960. Place premiered. Adelaide. Original language. English. The One Day of the Year is a 1958 Australian play by Alan Seymour about contested attitudes to Anzac Day .
Freotopia > authors > Alan Seymour OAM, 1927-2015. Alan Seymour. Roger Stubbs: When Alan Seymour's play, The One Day of the Year, based on the celebration of ANZAC Day, was first performed in 1960, it caused great controversy for the way it seemed to denigrate a great tradition. As more Australians saw it performed, a more balanced view emerged
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Alan Seymour, born 1927 in Fremantle, Western Australia, is an Australian playwright and author best known for his play The One Day of the Year (1958). When Alan was nine, his father was killed in a wharf accident, after that he was raised by his sister May and her husband. Educated at Perth Modern School, he left at the age of fifteen after ...
