Point of Departure (Wednesday Theatre)

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"Point of Departure"
Wednesday Theatre episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 25
Directed by Henri Safran
Teleplay byplay by Jean Anouilh
Original air date22 June 1966 (1966-06-22)
Running time75 mins [1]
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"Point of Departure" is a 1966 Australian television film. [2] It screened as part of Wednesday Theatre . Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. [3] "Point of Departure" aired on 22 June 1966 in Sydney, [4] on 29 June 1966 in Melbourne, [5] [6] and on 27 July 1966 in Brisbane. [7]

Contents

It was one of three plays put on by the ABC to commemorate 2,500 years of Greek theatre. [8]

Plot

A boy and a girl meet in a small provincial town at the beginning of German occupation in World War II.

Cast

Production

Ross Thompson had previously been in The Pigeon for Australian Playhouse . He and Goddard had acted in a scene together in They're a Weird Mob . Point of Departure had a cast of fifteen. [7]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald write that Ross Thompson's "sensitive and convincing acting made the best of the obvious weaknesses in the plot itself." [9]

Filmink thought " maybe this is the sort of play that works best on stage, with its slightly fantastical nature and hopping around in time and place." [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "WEDNESDAY". The Canberra Times . Vol. 40, no. 11, 499. 20 June 1966. p. 23. Retrieved 22 March 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "leisure – the arts MUSIC A satisfying experience". The Canberra Times . 17 June 1966. p. 13. Retrieved 23 June 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  4. ↑ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 June 1966. p. 23.
  5. ↑ "Untitled". The Age. 23 June 1966. p. 15.
  6. ↑ "TV Guide". The Age. 23 June 1966. p. 29.
  7. 1 2 "Teenagers star in French love story". TV Times. 20 July 1966. p. 10.
  8. 1 2 Vagg, Stephen (4 October 2021). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays: Point of Departure and Man of Destiny". Filmink. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  9. ↑ JP (20 June 1966). "Wartime romance". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 16.


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