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The Time Is Not Yet Ripe

play by Louis Esson

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ17029531 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Time Is Not Yet Ripe is a 1912 Australian play by Louis Esson. It is a political comedy and is Esson's best known work.

It was first produced by the Melbourne Repertory Theatre at the Athenaeum Hall in 1912.

The Time Is Not Yet Ripe has since come to be acknowledged as an Australian classic, and was later published. Its first major revival was by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Comedy Theatre in 1973, and it also received professional productions in Sydney in 1977 and Adelaide in 1984.

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The public source identifies “The Time Is Not Yet Ripe” as play by Louis Esson. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Time, Ripe and play.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912, 1973, 1977, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Time, Ripe and play providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Time Is Not Yet Ripe”, the useful work is to connect “play by Louis Esson” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17029531. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1912, 1973, 1977 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Time Is Not Yet Ripe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.