Comets Soon Pass

Comets Soon Pass is a 1943 Australian play by Dymphna Cusack. It won the 1943 WA Drama Festival Award.^[1] (She had won it the year before with Morning Sacrifice.^[2]) The play was produced in Perth and in army camps.^[3] Leslie Rees called the play a "political-disquisitory".^[4]

Comets Soon Pass
Written by	Dymphna Cusack
Date premiered	1943
Original language	English

According to Cusack's biography the play "was her personal catharsis and artistic reprisal for the defection of her former lover, the novelist Xavier Herbert, and payback to the 'asparagus king' Gordon Edgell, who had tried to damn her publicly for her activism on behalf of unemployed youth."^[5]

The play was published in a 1950 collection of Cusack's plays.^[6][7]

Premise

A group gather in the house of a doctor during a flood.^[8]