Summary

This is an Introduction written for what John Naish must have envisioned would be a published collection of plays. The plays he marked for this collection were all one-act plays of the social-realism model of about a half hour performance duration: Picture Night, Glamour, The Claw, The Factory, The Maoris and The First Mrs Peters.

In the Introduction he states that his motivation for collating this collection was because he recognized "a gap in Australian dramatic writing- competent modern adult pieces capable of reasonably easy casting and staging by small amateur groups." These were plays in which, he believed Australians could recognize themselves. They were, what he called, "Australian plays".

Despite the titillating title he warns that "sex is here treated as a serious rather than hilarious topic" (with only The First Mrs Peters as being able to be described as a comedy of sorts).