Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of The Man Who Shot the Albatross, a version of the Governor Bligh story. In 1975, Lawler returned to settle in Australia as associate director of the Melbourne Theatre Company, with an agreement to complete a trilogy based on Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. The first play, Kid Stakes, opened in December 1975 and the second, Other Times, in December 1976. The Doll Trilogy had its first full performance at the Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, on 12 February 1977. Personal life Lawler married actress Jacklyn Kelleher in 1956. They had twin sons, Adam and Martin, born in London in May 1957, and subsequently a daughter, Kylie. He turned 100 in May 2021. Honours and legacy Lawler was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1980. The smaller theatre space, the Lawler, in the Melbourne Theatre Company's Southbank Theatre is named after him. Works Stage Cradle of Thunder (1949) The Bluff and the Fair (1952 – a reworked version of Hal's Belles, 1945) The Adventures of Ginger Meggs (1952, children's musical) Tram Stop 10! (1954, co-writer of revue) Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1955) Return Fare (1955, co-writer of revue) The Piccadilly Bushman (1959) The Unshaven Cheek (1963) A Breach in the Wall (1970) The Man Who Shot the Albatross (1971) Kid Stakes (1975) Other Times (1976) Godsend (1982) References External links 1921 births Living people 20th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Australian male writers Australian centenarians Australian male dramatists and playwrights Australian male stage actors Australian male writers Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire Male actors from Melbourne Men centenarians Writers from Melbourne People from Footscray, Victoria