The last of the Australian Plays series. I think some ones made/commissioned for it were shown on their own eg The Survivor.
Premise
During World War Two, Chester, an American soldier on leave in Australia meets an Australian girl. He meets her parents.
Cast
- Robert Dunlap as Chester
- Pat Bishop as the girl
- Don Crosby
- Lynn Murphy
- Lyn Lee
Production
John Croyston wrote the script. He told Graham Shirley in 2004 it was "a kind of love story".
Robert Dunlap was an American actor who was in Australia to make a TV series. He had been in The Juggler.
Reception
The Canberra Times
said it "was not a bad play, but it could be analysed out of existence.
It did have some excellent moments, however... strong point of the
play was that it seemed to be written with television strongly in mind.
It was more than a televised stage play; it made use of various
locations, instead of lodging the viewer in one obviously set-ish room,
never to see the light of day. The characters were mobile. The filming
was not im-aginative. Sensitive camera work could have brought the play
nearer to success. The cast was competent, not stylish, and there were
some new faces...It was... a relief not to see John Meillon and Lyndell
Rowe who have been rather over-exposed in the other plays."
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| The Age TV Guide 19 June 1970 p 1 |
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| SMH 4 Sept 1969 p 6 |
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| SMH 26 July 1970 p 109 |
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| Canberra Times28 July 1970 p 14 |
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