Fulfilment (radio play)

Fulfilment is a 1948 Australian radio drama by Rex Rienits about Mary Reibey that aired on the ABC. The play was popular and was performed again in 1951.

It was one of several dramatisations of Australian historical figures by Rienits, others including Margaret Catchpole, the Rum Rebellion, Mary Bligh, Ned Kelly and Mary Bryant.

A copy of the script is in the State Library of New South Wales.

There had been a 1947 Australian radio play about Reibey called Mary Reibey by Dymphna Cusack.

Premise
According to the ABC Weekly, Mary Reibey has gone down in Australian history as a girl who was transported from England for the trumpery offence of stealing a ride on a horse, and saved from the humiliations of a convict's life by having the luck to interest an officer on the ship bringing her to Sydney. When the officer married her, her whole prospect was changed, and Mary Reibey was to live a life which spanned more than half of the story of New South Wales and to fulfil her early efforts as the first woman trader in the growing colony. Rex Rienits... has reconstructed the life and times of Mary Reibey, the narrative being unfolded by one of her sons. It is a tale of pluck and initiative at a time when business life was almost wholly denied to women.