Fear (radio play)

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Fear is a 1930 Australian stage play by Ruth Bedford. [1]

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It was presented in 1940. [2]

According to the Daily News "It dealt with a husband and wife In a cottage on a lonely moor as a storm raged outside. The husband, possessed by fear, bears a cry coming over the moor. His wife, with whom he Is much In love, seeks to comfort him. "But through every crevice fear finds a way... " Although this play Is at times mnrked by quite a beautiful flow of language, it falls completely to satisfy." [3]

According to Wireless Weekly "The poetry was the only interest. As drama, it just wasn’t." [4]

Radio version

Bedford adapted it into a radio play. This was broadcast by the ABC as part of a series of ten verse dramas on radio. The others included The Golden Lover , The Real Betrayal , We're Going Through , It Has Happened Before , Mined Gold , Succubus , The Unmapped Lands , Brief Apocalypse , and Richard Bracken-Farmer . [5]

The play was performed by members of Sydney University Dramatic Society. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Community Playhouse". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 28,953. 21 October 1930. p. 4. Retrieved 1 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Australian Play Night At N.T.L." Daily News. Vol. 2, no. 458. 18 May 1940. p. 9. Retrieved 1 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Drought, Dread Domesticity & Darlinghurst". Daily News. Vol. 2, no. 464. New South Wales, Australia. 25 May 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 1 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "The Little Theatres", The Wireless Weekly, June 1, 1940, retrieved 1 February 2024– via Trove
  5. ↑ "Ten new verse plays", ABC Weekly, 20 March 1943, retrieved 1 February 2024– via Trove
  6. ↑ "Broadcast by S.U.D.S.", ABC Weekly, vol. 5, no. 26, 26 June 1943, retrieved 1 February 2024– via Trove
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