You've Got to Get on Jack

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You've Got to Get on Jack
Written by David Williamson
Date premieredJune 1970
Place premiered La Mama, Melbourne
Original languageEnglish
Genrerevue

You've Got to Get On Jack is a 1970 revue by David Williamson for the Australian Performing Group. The original cast included Alan Finney and Bruce Spence. [1]

It received a good review by Katharine Brisbane in The Australian which Williamson remembers as the first positive encouragement he had received in print. [2]

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References

  1. You've Got to Get On Jack at Ausstage
  2. Brian Kiernan, David Williamson: A Writer's Career, Currency Press, 1996 p 68