Australian Theatre Modernism and Patrick White details the rejection of two Patrick White plays by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s. In 1961 the board of governors rejected a proposal to include the world premiere of Whites first major play The Ham Funeral for the 1962 festival. In 1963 it rejected a proposal to premiere a subsequent play Night on Bald Mountain for the 1964 festival. These two rejections were taken up in the press where the former was referred to as