Rush

by Neil Fuller, Howard Griffiths, John Martin

Rush is an ambitious attempt to make real for us the gold rush of the early 1850s. But the focus is on people rather than gold. At Crocker's Gully, a small diggings near Ballarat, we are immersed in the day-to-day relationships, hopes, fears and angers which shape a small and isolated community in a strange continent. This book is a selection of three episodes from the twelve-part ABC Television series, winner of the Logie Award for Best New Drama 1974. Neil Fuller, Curriculum Assistant with the Victorian Education Department, introduces the scripts and draws them together with unusual project ideas, discussion questions and suggestions for wider study. Rush will both entertain students and inform them about a vital period in Australia's history in the most direct way -- through drama.

Paperback

Published August 1, 1975