The Schoolmistress (Wednesday Theatre)

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"The Schoolmistress"
Wednesday Theatre episode
Episode no.Season 3
Episode 11
Directed by John Croyston
Based on The Schoolmistress
by Arthur Wing Pinero
Original air date15 March 1967 (1967-03-15)
Running time90 minutes [1]
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"The Schoolmistress" is a 1967 Australian TV play based on The Schoolmistress by Arthur Wing Pinero. John Croyston directed based on a stage play presented by Alexander Hay. It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre . [2]

Contents

Plot

At a girls school one of the girls is secretly married to a young man her parents have forbidden her to see.

Cast

Production

It was a TV version of a production of the play that was then running at the Old Tote. [3] [4]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald to put the play "into the telly machine is like asking a Ford Mustang to run on oats" but admitted "_Croyston's lighting and camera movements show detailed thought and are worked to effect. He cannot help losing colour or the third dimension, but he has kept the essential frothiness and has puffed it further with cleverly caught close-ups and so on" but that "the 90 minutes of TV seem to take longer than the 140 minutes of theatre." [3]

The Sunday Sydney Morning Herald called it "a most enjoyable affair... the whole enterprise was one of ABN-2's more successful experiments." [5]

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References

  1. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 13 March 1967. p. 18.
  2. "Old Tote Production". Sydney Morning Herald. 13 March 1967. p. 17.
  3. 1 2 Robinson (14 March 1967). "ON TELEVISION Schoolmistress in the box}". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 17.
  4. "Elegance is key note". Sydney Morning Herald. 26 January 1967. p. 28.
  5. Veitch, Jock (19 March 1967). "A well drilled lot of laughs". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 92.