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We're Going Through
Australian 1940s radio verse play From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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We're Going Through is a 1943 radio verse play by T. Inglis Moore about the Australian troops during the Malayan Campaign in World War Two, specifically the battle at Bakri and Parit Sulong.[2][3]
It was one of a number of radio verse plays the ABC produced in the wake of the success of Fire on the Snow.[4] The ABC held a competition for verse plays and We're Going Through was commended by judges.[5] It was originally broadcast as one of a series of these verse plays in 1943.[6]
The play was performed again a number of times on radio, including in 1944.[7]
It was published in 1945 with a foreword by Gordon Bennett.[8] According to The Bulletin, "Moore has done well to set down this plain truth about Chris —and the nature of poets —that he is a man like other men. But there are also times when a poet is not a man like other men... A poet, as Inglis Moore should know, is interested in his poetry. And of this side of Chris’s character the play says nothing at all. We’re Going Through is not, then, a drama of character."[9]
Angry Penguins said "A radio verse play hamstrung by all the artificialities and stylisations of 'radio technique'. Innumerable fade-ins and fade-outs lead from episodic drama to flash-back rhetoric. Not much characterisation. Mainly stock types. Sincere treatment."[10]
According to Leslie Rees, "although there is sensitive and vivid writing, the dominant character of the play is that of manliness, forthright feeling and mateship in face of deadly danger, a paean to the Diggers."[11]
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