A 1954 BBC TV production of an Australian play by Dymphna Cusack (who wrote Come in Spinner). A link is here.Australian TV did not adapt it.
Why not? Three hander. Strong pedigree...
Premise
A soldier who, having been posted missing fighting the Japanese in World War Two,
presumed dead, returns three years later to find his wife married to his best friend. He leaves her with her new husband.
Cast
* Rupert Davies as Alec Roper * Gillian Lutyens as Margaret Roper * Alan Tilvern as Rod Fallaw
Original play
Originally written as a a stage play which came second in a Playwrights Advisory Board competition in 1946.
Other adaptations
It was adapted into a radio play, Eternal Now, which debuted on the ABC in 1946. A copy of this play is at the Fryer Library.
The stage play Stand Still Time was presented at the Irving Theatre, London, in January 1953. Cusack was living in France around this time.
It was adapted for Australian radio in 1955. The Age called it "thoroughly unrealistic".
Production
The TV production aired on BBC TV Sunday 19 December 1954 at 9.00-10.30pm
- The producer was Julian Amyes, the designer Roy Oxley.
- It was Presented again at 9.45pm on Thursday 23 December 1954.
- Reception
- Reviews were mixed.
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| The Age 21 Dec 1954 p 4 |
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| The Age 31 March 1953 p 2 |
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| The Mercury 21 Dec 1954 p 14 |
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| Daily Mail 20 Dec 1954 |
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