''The Season at Sarsaparilla: a charade of suburbia in 2 acts'' is a 1962 play by Australian writer

Patrick White Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was a British-born Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987. White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, ...

. It concerns three households, the Pogsons, the Boyles, and the Knotts, in the fictional suburb of Sarsaparilla. This play was written shortly after the first performance of earlier play ''

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'' and while ''

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'' was being prepared for publication. ''The Season at Sarsaparilla'' premiered in 1962 directed by John Tasker for the Adelaide University Theatre Guild in association with the

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. This was the basis for a 1963 professional production at Sydney's Theatre Royal, presented by J.C. Williamson's. Other major productions have included: *a 1962

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(Melbourne) production directed by John Sumner *a 1976

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(Sydney) production directed by

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*a 1984

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(Adelaide) production directed by

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*a 2007

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production directed by Benedict Andrews (which was nominated for the 2007

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References

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