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Alan Seymour, One Day of the Year (play) Angus & Robertson, Sydney, hardcover 1962. 108 pages.SIGNED first editionInscribed to a friend by author. Includes original playbill from Palace Theatre Sydney, Christmas card and two clipped newspaper articles.Condition: Very clean tight copy with original dust jacket, price-clipped. About: The One Day of the Year is an Australian play by Alan Seymour originally written in 1958 about Anzac Day.Alf's son Hughie and his girlfriend Jan plan to document Anzac Day for the university newspaper, focusing on the drinking on Anzac Day. For the first time in his life Hughie refuses to attend the dawn service with Alf. When he watches the march on television at home with his mother and Wacka, he is torn between outrage at the display and love for his father.The play was inspired by an article in the University of Sydney newspaper Honi Soit criticising Anzac Day and Seymour's own observations of how ex-servicemen behaved on that day. The character of Alf was based on… Read More