Shallow Cups is a 1933 Australian play by Dymphna Cusack.Marilla North, 'Cusack, Ellen Dymphna (Nell) (1902–1981)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cusack-ellen-dymphna-nell-12385/text22259, published first in hardcopy 2007, accessed online 14 March 2024.
The play was published in a 1934 collection of Australian plays Eight Plays for Australians. It was staged a number of times through the 1930s and 1940s by amateur theatres in Sydney, Melbourna and England. It won a Drama League prize in Sydney, and was on the Playwrights’ Advisory Board’s list of recommended Australian plays.
Leslie Rees called it "part-dramatic, part-satirical, with touches of the occult... the play was for a while quite popular with amateur groups."
Premise A dead girl's friends and relations are given the option to resurrect her but fail.
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External links Shallow Cups at Ausstage