Unfair title - but, plays given a chance bc of the Doll (* means UK production)
1. The Shifting Heart* - worked well
2. The Bastard Country*
3. Curly on the Rack
4. Slaughter of St Teresa's Day
5. The One Day of the Year*
6. Life of the Party*
7. The Piccaddily Bushman
8. The Unshaven Cheek*
9. The Multi Coloured Umbrella
Newcastle journalist
Credits
*The Ride on the Big Dipper (1967) - TV play
*Ride on the Big Dipper (1968) - radio play
*The Dam (1970) radio play see here
*Dynasty - The Coorabungle Deposit (1971), Two Reds Don't Make a White
*Father Dear Come Over Here (1972) - stage play - review here
*Certain Women (1973) see here
*The Half Life of Heather Harcout (1982) - stage play
*Wittstein (1983) - stage play
Article from 1980 - they cut out Australian plays because didn't think they were the world's best.
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| Age 10 April 1980 |
Bright Wright told Susan Lever:
"Hey You" was a very early comedy. It was written by John Michael Howson who became quite well known as a rather dilettante commentator on film and so forth. John actually was-- John wrote most the Magic Circle Club, a very fine children's program we were doing from Channel 10 which was also directed by Godfrey Phillip, a very talented young director. And Godfrey and he put together "Hey You" and I sort of--what will I say? I fed it a bit, and helped it along, and managed to sell it to the management.
It was the story of two - what do they call it? Two disparate characters living together: the rough, tough Australian who was reasonably intelligent and well-off, and a little toffee-nosed Englishman who was really a tramp a sort of Charlie Chaplin type character. It always opened with the Australian going, "Hey You!" And the Englishman sort of being very hurt about it. But they got some good comedy out of it. There was a rough serial thread running through it.
And the scripts weren't brilliant, but they were quite good. John Michael was a very good writer. But that was "Hey You." I would have loved to do more, but I parted on rather bad terms with the management. They were telling me actually to kill all live production so they could make more money out of film, and I refused to do it. I rang my wife and said, "I've just given my resignation." She used some rather rude words, and told me what to say to them. We came back to Sydney.
PR release on it below from NAA Publicity files.
Writers included: Marion Ord, G. Robinson, Shirley Baron, ?? Wheeler, Edwin Thomas, Michael Wright.Stuart Littlemore, Dennis Carroll, James Earle, Michael Thomas.
Alan Burke, Colin Dean taught. Richard Meikle and Lola Brooks.
