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*Moya O'Sullivan.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106991803 |title=LEISURE THE ARTS |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=42 |issue=11,816 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=11 October 1967 |accessdate=19 February 2017 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
*Moya O'Sullivan.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106991803 |title=LEISURE THE ARTS |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=42 |issue=11,816 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=11 October 1967 |accessdate=19 February 2017 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==''Romeo and Juliet'' by William Shakespeare==
==''Romeo and Juliet'' by William Shakespeare==
Date 18 October 1967.Directed by [[Oscar Whitbread]], adapted by Alan Cole.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|title=Juliet in a Mini|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gMJPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZJMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4912%2C613844|date=5 October 1967|page=10}}</ref>
Date 20 October 1967.
Directed by [[Oscar Whitbread]].
===Cast===
===Cast===
*[[Sean Scully]] as Romeo
⚫
*[[Sean Scully]] (Romeo)*[[Liza Goddard]] (Juliet)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106993483 |title=TELEVISION A WEEK OF SAD STORIES |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=42 |issue=11,824 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=20 October 1967 |accessdate=19 February 2017 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
*[[Liza Goddard]] as Juliet
⚫
*Syd Conabere<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106993483 |title=TELEVISION A WEEK OF SAD STORIES |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=42 |issue=11,824 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=20 October 1967 |accessdate=19 February 2017 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
*Robin Ramsay as Mercutio
*David Turnbull as Tybalt
*Jennifer Claire
*Joseph James
*Joan Harris as nurse
===Reception===
''The Age'' called it "a really splendid achievement."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ksJPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZJMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2956%2C4696990|title=Teletopics|date=26 October 1967|page=9}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 05:45, 8 May 2020

Love and War
Directed byPatrick Barton
Oscar Whitbread
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerJohn Croyston
Running time90 mins
Original release
NetworkABC
Release6 September 1967

Love and War is a 1967 Australian TV series.[1]

It consists of six plays shot in ABC's Gore Hill studios. All of the self-contained episodes were produced by John Croyston, but not all of them were written by Australian script-writers.

Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[2]

Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw

Date 6 September 1967. Produced by Patrick Barton. The play had been filmed by the ABC in 1963/

Cast

Sergeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden

Date 13 September 1967===

L'Flaherty, VC by George Bernard Shaw

Date 20 September 1967.

Cast

  • Edwin Hodgeman
  • Kerry Maguire
  • Moray Powell
  • Audrey Teasdale

The Brass Butterfly by William Golding

Date 27 September 1967.

Cast

  • Peter Collingwood
  • Ron Graham
  • Sue Condon
  • Peter Rowley
  • Mark Albiston

Intersection by Michael Boddy

Date 4 October 1967[4]

Plot

A woman leaves a small town where she has a boyfriend and falls for a guitarist.

Cast

  • Helen Morse
  • John Gregg
  • Robert McDarra
  • Beryl Cheers
  • Slim De Grey

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald said "The cast did what they could with it. Director John Croyston did what he could."[5]

Construction by John Croyston

Date 11 October 1967. Director: Storry Walton.

Cast

  • Ron Graham
  • Moya O'Sullivan.[6]

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Date 18 October 1967.Directed by Oscar Whitbread, adapted by Alan Cole.[7]

Cast

  • Sean Scully as Romeo
  • Liza Goddard as Juliet
  • Syd Conabere[8]
  • Robin Ramsay as Mercutio
  • David Turnbull as Tybalt
  • Jennifer Claire
  • Joseph James
  • Joan Harris as nurse

Reception

The Age called it "a really splendid achievement."[9]

References

  1. ^ "Plays with themes of love and war". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 11, 784. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 September 1967. p. 15. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  3. ^ "WEDNESDAY I". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 11, 784. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 September 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "TELEVISION A night of free TV". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 11, 815. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 October 1967. p. 15. Retrieved 23 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "ON TELEVISION It's tough for TV writers". Sydney Morning Herald. 5 October 1967. p. 11.
  6. ^ "LEISURE THE ARTS". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 11, 816. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 October 1967. p. 24. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Juliet in a Mini". The Age. 5 October 1967. p. 10.
  8. ^ "TELEVISION A WEEK OF SAD STORIES". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 11, 824. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 20 October 1967. p. 15. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "Teletopics". The Age. 26 October 1967. p. 9.


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