Poor Man's Orange
Encyclopedia
Poor Man's Orange is a novel
(ISBN 0-312-00054-5) by New Zealand
born Australia
n author Ruth Park
. Published in 1949, the book is the sequel to The Harp in the South and continues the story of the Darcy family, living in the Surry Hills area of Sydney
.
Like its predecessor The Harp In The South, Poor Man's Orange was also adapted for Australian television
by the Ten Network in 1987.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
(ISBN 0-312-00054-5) by New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
born Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n author Ruth Park
Ruth Park
Ruth Park, AM was a New Zealand-born author, who spent most of her life in Australia. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow , and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat , which also spawned a book series .-Personal history:Park was born in...
. Published in 1949, the book is the sequel to The Harp in the South and continues the story of the Darcy family, living in the Surry Hills area of Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
.
Television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
by the Ten Network in 1987.
Cast
| Cast | Role |
| Anne Phelan Anne Phelan Anne Mary Phelan, OAM , is a much awarded Australian actress, who has appeared prominently in Theatre, Australian television productions and soap operas, including Prisoner where she played the role of 'Top Dog' Myra Desmond and Monica Taylor in Something in the air... |
Mumma Darcy (Margaret) |
| Martyn Sanderson Martyn Sanderson Martyn Sanderson was a New Zealand actor, filmmaker and poet.Sanderson was one of the founders of Downstage Theatre in 1964 in Wellington, with a vision of a small professional company performing challenging works in an intimate venue... |
Hughie Darcy |
| Anna Hruby Anna Hruby Anna Hruby is an Australian actress who has appeared in many Australian television series and theatre productions.Hruby first achieved recognition for her role in Prisoner as Paddy Lawson... |
Roie (Rowena) Rothe |
| Kaarin Fairfax Kaarin Fairfax Kaarin Fairfax is an Australian actress who played the role of 'Dolour Darcy' in two TV miniseries The Harp in the South and Poor Man's Orange based on books of the same names by Ruth Park. She has also acted in other Australian television series throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and... |
Dolour Darcy |
| Shane Connor Shane Connor Shane Connor is an Australian actor, who has had extensive experience in both stage and film productions.-Background:Shane Connor graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in the early 1980s... |
Charlie Rothe |
| Syd Conabere | Pat Diamond |
| Ron Shand Ron Shand Ron Shand was Australian actor and comedian who worked extensively in theatre, vaudeville and television.Shand started his career in the circus with his parents as a clown, and later performed as a song and dance man in vaudeville, did tent shows and performed comedy... |
Bumper Reilly |
| Emily Nicol | Motty (Moira) Rothe |
| Brandon Burke | Tommy Mendel |
| Lois Ramsay Lois Ramsay Lois Ramsey is an Australian actress, best known for her performances as eccentric old ladies on television.She was a major cast member of the 1970s soap opera The Box as tea lady Mrs. Hopkins... |
Mrs. Campion |
| Cecil Parkee | Lick Jimmy |
| Carole Skinner Carole Skinner Carole Skinner is an Australian actress who works mainly in the theatre and is well known to armchair viewers for her roles in many long running soap operas.Skinner played top dog Nola McKenzie in Prisoner... |
Delie Stock |
| Charles Tingwell Charles Tingwell In 1941, aged 18, he volunteered for war service overseas with the Royal Australian Air Force. Under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, personnel from Commonwealth air forces were part of a joint training and assignment system. Consequently, Tingwell trained as a pilot in Canada during 1942... |
Father Cooley |
| Brendan Han Tjahjadi | Roger Bubba |
| Kerry Walker | Miss. Moon |