The Rising Sun (De opgaande zon) is a 1908 Dutch play by Herman Heijermans.
[1] The play was produced for Australian radio in 1942 under a special program called "Plays from the Allies", called a "short series oi plays from Dutch Chinese, Russian and American sources—not necessarily plays which glorify those people but which show something of their native genius.
"[3] The play was produced again by the ABC with Peter Finch in the lead role.
[4] ABC Weekly said the play "portrays the troubles of Matthew Strong, whose small business is obliterated by a new and glaring chain store, The Rising Sun, or as Mathew in his refusal to accept setbacks calls it, The Never-Setting Sun.
It is the delicate depiction of the love between Matthew and his daughter that gives the play its quality.