Sabotage is a 1940 Australian radio play by is a radio play by Catherine Shepherd. It imagines what it might be like to turn into a fifth column in Australia.
Leslie Rees called it a play that "predicates a tragedy which, having happened to others in Holland, Norway and elsewhere, might easily happen to persons in our own midst."
The play was performed again in 1941.
A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library.Play listing at Fryer Library
Wireless Weekly called it "perhaps the most penetrating piece of drama she [Catherine Shepherd] has given radio to date" and "shows with valuable clarity the insidious appeal of Nazi concepts to the man who is tired of democracy’s cumbersome working."
Premise Richard Gale, a struggling intellectual, becomes attracted to Nazism during the Depression. He agrees to work for the Nazi Party.
References
External links Sabotage at AustLit Complete text of play at AustLit