The Trapper

The Trapper is a 1957 Australian play by Thornton Morrow. It was extensively performed throughout Australia at a time when that was not common for Australian plays.
It was performed on Australian radio in 1956 and 1957.

Premise

From ABC Weekly - "it is set in a dismal and dilapidated farm-house, where old Sam Craddock is lying ill. He is tended by Martha, his not very attractive daughter, whose femininity has been withered by bitterness and disappointment. Sam’s only visitor is the dog-trapper, Johnnie Glass, a bachelor. Martha would have said if you had asked her that her father took no interest in or care of her whatever. But the old man. sick though he is, has wily plans afoot to make life easier for his daughter—and perhaps himself."