Untiring Courage. "Weary" by Alan Hopgood. Dunstan Playhouse [review]
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Date
2005-04-29
Authors
Bramwell, Murray Ross
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The Adelaide Review
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Abstract
Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop waited more than forty years before he turned the scattered notes of his wartime diaries into publishable form. Recorded in dreadful circumstances while he was a prisoner of the Japanese, first in camps in Java and then along the Burma-Thailand Railway, they now stand as one of the most remarkable documents of World War II. In "Weary", playwright Alan Hopgood has astutely recognised the intrinsic drama of Dunlop’s own narrative and in so doing, served his subject well.
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Bramwell, Murray 2005. Untiring Courage. Review of "Weary" by Alan Hopgood. 'The Adelaide Review', April, no.267, 23.