The Roaring Days at Repertory

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Title The Roaring Days at Repertory
Abstract/Description Dotted around the Hill, like fly-specks on a map, are the crumbling mementos of a hundred-plus years of local history. The access roads are dusty and rutted and sometimes axel-deep in creek-sand, but an afternoon's pilgrimage to a ruined homestead - with spinifex sprouting from its falled walls and a lovely tumbled headstone or two near by - can bring the ghosts rushing out to whisper of labors lost. If we will listen. Perhaps John Pickup heard them and thought to clothe them with flesh and put a song in their mouths in place of dust - and perhaps they won't mind - for what men, once buried, dont "want dug up again"? Anyway, his ghosts are comely and breathe with life, and if men don't usually sing in chorus when transacting business, wouldn't it be a danged sight more fun if they did? Roy Mitchell has provided some catchy and singable tunes, and the lusty songs for the chorus (lyrics J. Pickup) were undoubtedly the highlights of the evening at the Wills St. Playhouse on Saturday night.
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Source Barrier Miner, Broken Hill, NSW, 1888
Page 2
Date Issued 2 November 1964
Language English
Citation The Roaring Days at Repertory, Barrier Miner, 2 November 1964, 2
Resource Identifier 50398
Dataset AusStage