Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, a 1955 play by Ray Lawler is as canonical an Australian play as you can get. On its premiere, it was credited with ushering a new era of assuredness in Australian theatre: telling Australian stories, with Australian accents.
Barney and Roo work as cane cutters for seven months of the year. In the off-season, they travel to Melbourne to spend time with working class women Olive and Nancy.
