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On 9 June 1951, Ben Chifley returns to his Bathurst home to write a speech for the Labor Party conference in Sydney the next day. This one-person play presents Chifley through the work and public life that made him a significant political figure.
In Palm Beach, a writer modeled on Bob Ellis is left alone while his wife and child are away. He entertains a public-service worker, a poet friend, and a journalist whose child he fathered; the episodic, music-filled play frames their private jokes and relationships against political crises and the end of the Whitlam decade.
On 9 June 1951, Ben Chifley returns to his Bathurst home to write a speech for the Labor Party conference in Sydney the next day. This one-person play presents Chifley through the work and public life that made him a significant political figure.
In Palm Beach, a writer modeled on Bob Ellis is left alone while his wife and child are away. He entertains a public-service worker, a poet friend, and a journalist whose child he fathered; the episodic, music-filled play frames their private jokes and relationships against political crises and the end of the Whitlam decade.