![]() ![]() ![]() Olive has invited her coworker Pearl in Nancy's stead. ![]() Olive's friend, Nancy usually stays with Olive during the summer but was recently married. Olive is getting ready and her friend Pearl is talking with Olive's young neighbor, a girl named Bubba. The play opens as the women of an old house in Carlton, Melbourne prepare for Roo and Barney to arrive from Queensland. The prequels detail the beginning of the summer traditions and have many of the same characters. The play is considered to be the third in a trilogy with two prequels, Kid Stakes and Other Times. Angus & Robertson first published the play in 1955. It is the 17th year that Arthur "Barney" Ibbot and Olive's boyfriend Reuben "Roo" Webber have come to stay with her, but this summer proves to be less care-free than the others. Set in Melbourne, Australia in 1953, Summer of Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler tells the story of Olive Leech's tradition of summering with two sugarcane cutters during the layoff season. ![]()
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