Barnstable | |
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Written by | James Saunders |
Directed by | William Sterling |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | ABC |
Original release | |
Release | 7 August 1963 (Melbourne) [1] |
Release | 4 September 1963 (Sydney) [2] [3] |
Barnstable is a 1963 Australian television play which had been performed on British TV. [4] [5] [6] It was filmed in Melbourne. Sandra Power was the barrell girl from In Melbourne Tonight making her acting debut. [1]
The play had been performed on British radio in 1959 and British television in 1962. William Sterling called it "a comic modern parable of serious intention. In content, it reflects the thinking of many intellectual writers in Europe." [1]
The TV critic for the Sydney Morning Herald wrote that "Blessed simplicity is the virtue of a parable, but in this production, strongly reminiscent in style of the first episode of a very dull science fiction serial, it was never clear whether the author... wanted an undercurrent of humour to his horror or an undercurrent of horror to his humour." [7]
The Age wrote "it was difficult to known how to take the play." [8]
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