TV version of a play by Pinero performing at the Old Tote. The ABC would occasionally just film a stage play eg Macbeth in Camera, The First 400 Years.
Premise
At a girls school one of the girls is secretly married to a young man her parents have forbidden her to see.
Cast
- David Copping
- Kirrily Nolan
- Jeanie Drynan
- Judith Fisher as Peggy Hesslrigge
- Jacki Weaver
- Clarissa Kaye-Mason
- Frank Lloyd
- Alan Edwards
- Marion Johns
Original play
It was by Albert Pinero and debuted in 1886.
Production
It was a TV version of a production of the play that was then running at the Old Tote.
It was directed by John Croyston in Sydney. Filmed 19-21 Feb.
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald to put the play "into the telly machine is like asking a Ford Mustang to run on oats" but admitted "_Croyston's lighting and camera movements show detailed thought and are worked to effect. He cannot help losing colour or the third dimension, but he has kept the essential frothiness and has puffed it further with cleverly caught close-ups and so on" but that "the 90 minutes of TV seem to take longer than the 140 minutes of theatre."
The Sunday Sydney Morning Herald called it "a most enjoyable affair... the whole enterprise was one of ABN-2's more successful experiments."
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| SMH 19 March 1967 p 92 |
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| SMH TV Guide 26 Jan 1967 p 6 |
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| SMH 14 March 1967 p 17 |
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| SMH 12 March 1967 p 100 |
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| SMH TV Guide 13 March 1967 p 1 |
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| NAA Pt 12 |
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