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''Rusty Bugles'' was a controversial Australian play written by Sumner Locke Elliott in 1948. It toured extensively throughout Australia between 1948–1949 and was threatened with closure by the New South Wales Chief Secretary's Office for obscenity. ==Production history== It was first produced by Doris Fitton and Sydney's Independent Theatre company on 14 October 1948, and advertised as an "army comedy documentary".〔(''Sydney Morning Herald'' 22 October 1948 )〕 The announcement of its ban was made by J. M. Baddeley, Chief Secretary and acting Premier of New South Wales, on 22 October〔(''Sydney Morning Herald'' 23 October 1948 )〕 but after initially defying the ban, Doris Fitton avoided a forced closure by commissioning a rewrite from the author.〔(''Sydney Morning Herald'' 28 October 1948 )〕 The Independent Theatre took the play, after an unprecedented 20-week run in New South Wales, to reopen The King's Theatre, Melbourne.〔("Opening the Season" ''(Melbourne) Argus'' 16 April 1949 )〕 Meanwhile, another company was playing "Rusty Bugles" at Killara, New South Wales, so it was the first Australian play to run simultaneously in two states.〔( "Rusty Bugles ran in two cities" ''(Sydney) Sunday Herald'' 24 April 1949 )〕 The words that were the subject of the ban gradually reappeared; no legal action was ever taken, though rewrites were demanded in different states.〔("Candid Comment" ''(Sydney) Sunday Herald'' 15 May 1949 )〕 At the end of its record six-month run in Melbourne, the production transferred to Adelaide, then returned to Sydney at The Tatler. But now critics were writing that it was being played for laughs, with the swearing self-conscious rather than part of the patois.〔("Rusty Bugles sound a false note" ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 10 April 1950 )〕 The publisher of the play, Currency Press, quotes Elliott as saying that ''Rusty Bugles'' was 'a documentary... Not strictly a play... it has no plot in the accepted sense'. Elliott did not foresee that shortly after this, the genre of the theatre of the absurd would be established as a 'legitimate' dramatic form where plot and the delineation of character are less important than the insight offered into the implicit drama of most human interactions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rusty Bugles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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