The King Who Wouldn't is a 1952 Australian play by Oriel Gray.
[1] It was highly commended in a Journalists’ Club competition for best new Australian play of 1956 (won by The Shifting Heart).
[2] Leslie Rees called it "well ahead of its time... a thinly veiled satire on contemporary royalty... At the time this comedy appeared unplayable, or at least it was unlikely any group would play it; it might have collected production honours had it been written a few years later in the age of permissiveness or down-with-the-Establishment.
"[3] The play was given a reading at Sydney's Independent Theatre in 1965.
[4] The play also may have a connection with an early revue of Gray's, Marx of Time.