Les Emigres aux Terres Australes
Written byCitizen Gamas
Date premiered1792
Place premieredTheatre des Amis de la Patrie, the Rue de Louvois, France
Original languageFrench

Les Emigres aux Terres Australes (English: The Emigrants to the Southern Lands) is a 1792 French stage play by Citizen Gamas. The play had a fortnight's run as in the Theatre des Amis de la Patrie, in the Rue de Louvois.[1]

Background

It was the first play to be set in colonial Australia and is sometimes referred to as the first Australian play.[2][3]

The subtitle was Le Dernier Chapitre d’une Grande Révolution, Comedie (The Last Chapter of a Great Revolution, a Comedy).[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Advocate Magazine". Advocate. Vol. LXXXVI, no. 5110. Victoria, Australia. 2 July 1953. p. 9. Retrieved 17 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN PLAY". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 22, 331. Victoria, Australia. 23 February 1918. p. 7. Retrieved 17 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards An Australian Drama. pp. 1–3.
  4. ↑ Stokes, Freg J. (2 September 2020). "Australia, a Counterrevolutionary Colony".

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