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| | premiere = {{Start date|1868|07|04}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13168848 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LVIII, |issue=9399 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=4 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> | | premiere = {{Start date|1868|07|04}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13168848 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LVIII, |issue=9399 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=4 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> |
| | place = Victoria Theatre, Sydney<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13168825 |title=ADELAIDE. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LVIII, |issue=9399 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=4 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> | | place = Victoria Theatre, Sydney<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13168825 |title=ADELAIDE. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LVIII, |issue=9399 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=4 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> |
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| '''''Colonial Experience''''' is a 1868 Australian stage play by [[Walter Cooper (New South Wales politician)|Walter Cooper]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13201223 |title=No title |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LXI |issue=9912 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=26 February 1870 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119441376 |title=NOTES BY BUG GINS. |newspaper=[[Freeman's Journal]] |volume=XIX |issue=1320 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=25 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> It was Cooper's first play and the only one known to have survived in script form.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13201223 |title=No title |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LXI |issue=9912 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=26 February 1870 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> | '''''Colonial Experience''''' is a 1868 Australian stage play by [[Walter Cooper (New South Wales politician)|Walter Cooper]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13201223 |title=No title |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LXI |issue=9912 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=26 February 1870 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119441376 |title=NOTES BY BUG GINS. |newspaper=[[Freeman's Journal]] |volume=XIX |issue=1320 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=25 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> It was Cooper's first play and the only one known to have survived in script form.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13201223 |title=No title |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LXI |issue=9912 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=26 February 1870 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> |
| According to academic Richard Fotheringham the term "colonial experience" was originally :a requirement for farm labour stipulated in advertisements; but by the 1860s it had become associated ironically with young well-bred Englishmen coming to Australasia and going bush to learn self-reliance and useful skills. Often they were the sons of the absentee owners of grazing properties, finding out at first hand about the nature of their family’s investments."<ref>{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Fotheringham|page=320|title= Australian plays for the colonial stage : 1834-1899|year=2006|url=https://archive.org/details/australianplaysf0000unse/page/320/mode/1up}}</ref> | According to academic Richard Fotheringham the term "colonial experience" was originally :a requirement for farm labour stipulated in advertisements; but by the 1860s it had become associated ironically with young well-bred Englishmen coming to Australasia and going bush to learn self-reliance and useful skills. Often they were the sons of the absentee owners of grazing properties, finding out at first hand about the nature of their family's investments."<ref>{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Fotheringham|page=320|title= Australian plays for the colonial stage : 1834-1899|year=2006|url=https://archive.org/details/australianplaysf0000unse/page/320/mode/1up}}</ref> |
| The original production was "a great success".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111328310 |title=OUR SYDNEY LETTER. |newspaper=[[The Newcastle Chronicle]] |volume=X |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=11 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> According to the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' this "has shown the playgoing public that the talent necessary to the production of a good play is not confined to the mother country and a number of gentlemen, anxious to recognise Mr. Cooper's ability, have tendered him a benefit."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13169485 |title=GOVERNMENT OBSERVATORY, SYDNEY. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LVIII, |issue=9408 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=15 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> | The original production was "a great success".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111328310 |title=OUR SYDNEY LETTER. |newspaper=[[The Newcastle Chronicle]] |volume=X |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=11 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> According to the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' this "has shown the playgoing public that the talent necessary to the production of a good play is not confined to the mother country and a number of gentlemen, anxious to recognise Mr. Cooper's ability, have tendered him a benefit."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13169485 |title=GOVERNMENT OBSERVATORY, SYDNEY. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LVIII, |issue=9408 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=15 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> |
| ''Sydney Punch'' said "his comedy bears abundant evidence of his abihty to hit off the more stirring features of these characteristics with ease and 'dramatic wit and effect. The dialogue is effective throughout, and the interest never | ''Sydney Punch'' said "his comedy bears abundant evidence of his abihty to hit off the more stirring features of these characteristics with ease and 'dramatic wit and effect. The dialogue is effective throughout, and the interest never |
| flags. There is nothing extravagant or improbable in the piece, and the modesty of nature is in no way violated."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article253222517 |title=PUNCH'S EVENING AMUSEMENTS. |newspaper=[[Sydney Punch]] |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=11 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> | flags. There is nothing extravagant or improbable in the piece, and the modesty of nature is in no way violated."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article253222517 |title=PUNCH'S EVENING AMUSEMENTS. |newspaper=[[Sydney Punch]] |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=11 July 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> |
| Cooper appeared in a production.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166744793 |title=MUMMER MEMOIRS. |newspaper=[[Sydney Sportsman]] |volume=VII |issue=275 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=25 September 1907 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> | Cooper appeared in a production.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166744793 |title=MUMMER MEMOIRS. |newspaper=[[Sydney Sportsman]] |volume=VII |issue=275 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=25 September 1907 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> |
 | Cooper followed the play later that year with another comedy ''[[The New Crime]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28422421 |title=The Sydney Morning Herald. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LVIII |issue=9429 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=8 August 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> |
| Cooper followed the play later that year with another comedy ''[[The New Crime]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28422421 |title=The Sydney Morning Herald. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LVIII |issue=9429 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=8 August 1868 |accessdate=6 May 2024 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> |
| ==Premise== | ==Premise== |
| Matthew Grudge, a rich usurer, has the will of his deceased brother which gives the money to a nephew, Grudge wants the money to go to a niece so she can marry his own son, so Grudge concels the will. However Grudge's clerk, Peter Shrivel, has a duplicate. | Matthew Grudge, a rich usurer, has the will of his deceased brother which gives the money to a nephew, Grudge wants the money to go to a niece so she can marry his own son, so Grudge concels the will. However Grudge's clerk, Peter Shrivel, has a duplicate. |
| ==Revival== | ==Revival== |
| The play was published by Currency Press in 1979.<ref>{{cite news|title=A Merry Trifle|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald | The play was published by Currency Press in 1979.<ref>{{cite news|title=A Merry Trifle|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |
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| ==References== | ==References== |
| {{reflist}} | {{reflist}} |
| ==External links== | ==External links== |
| *[https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/work/2314 Colonial Experience] at Ausstage | *[https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/work/2314 Colonial Experience] at Ausstage |
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