Stand Sitll Time | |
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Written by | Dymphna Cusack |
Original language | English |
Subject | war |
Genre | drama |
Stand Still Time is a 1946 Australian play by Dymphna Cusack. It was adapted for radio and British television. [1]
A soldier who, having been posted missing fighting the Japanese in World War Two, presumed dead, returns three years later to find his wife married to his best friend. He leaves her with her new husband.
The play came second in a Playwrights Advisory Board competition in 1946. [2] Cusack had originally written it as a radio play. [3]
It was presented at the Irving Theatre, London, in January 1953. Cusack was living in France around this time. [4]
It was adapted into a radio play, Eternal Now, which debuted on the ABC in 1946. [5]
It was adapted again for Australian commercial radio in 1955, under its title Stand Still Time. [6]
The play was filmed for British television. [7] The TV production aired on BBC TV Sunday 19 December 1954 at 9.00-10.30pm
The producer was Julian Amyes, the designer Roy Oxley. It was Presented again at 9.45pm on Thursday 23 December 1954. Reviews were mixed. [8]
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