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Dark Enchantment
''Dark Enchantment'' is a 1949 Australian play by Max Afford. It was based on a 1943 play by Afford called ''Sleep No More'' Premise Set in a London theatrical boarding house in 1895. A young girl, Julie, whose mother runs the house, receives an inheritance from a foreign ventriloquist, Kurtner: his doll, £1,000, and an accompanying "dark enchantment". Production history ''Dark Enchantment'' premiered at the Minerva Theatre in Kings Cross Sydney in 1949. Afford's wife, Thelma, designed costumes for that production. The cast included Neva Carr Glynn and Grant Taylor. Reception Reviews were mixed. The ''Daily Telegraph'' said the play "left most of its thrills to explanatory— and trite — dialogue." The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' said Afford "proves his ability to lease with suspense and to administer shocks of horror. He can tell a story with macabre inventiveness and ingenious twists... The weakness of Max Afford's play fies in much of the dialogue, which is in parts tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Enchantment
''Dark Enchantment'' is a 1949 Australian play by Max Afford. It was based on a 1943 play by Afford called ''Sleep No More'' Premise Set in a London theatrical boarding house in 1895. A young girl, Julie, whose mother runs the house, receives an inheritance from a foreign ventriloquist, Kurtner: his doll, £1,000, and an accompanying "dark enchantment". Production history ''Dark Enchantment'' premiered at the Minerva Theatre in Kings Cross Sydney in 1949. Afford's wife, Thelma, designed costumes for that production. The cast included Neva Carr Glynn and Grant Taylor. Reception Reviews were mixed. The ''Daily Telegraph'' said the play "left most of its thrills to explanatory— and trite — dialogue." The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' said Afford "proves his ability to lease with suspense and to administer shocks of horror. He can tell a story with macabre inventiveness and ingenious twists... The weakness of Max Afford's play fies in much of the dialogue, which is in parts tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Afford
Malcolm R. Afford (8 April 1906 – 2 November 1954) known as Max Afford, was an Australian playwright and novelist. Biography Early years Afford was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the youngest son of Robert D. Afford of "Glenleigh", Stamford street Parkside, an inner suburb. He left school when he was 16, and started writing novels and plays. Personal life After winning the centenary competition in Adelaide, he moved to Sydney in 1936, on contract to the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) as a playwright and producer in the Federal Productions Department. Max married Thelma Thomas on 16 April 1938 at St Michael's church, Vaucluse, Sydney. Thelma, a costume designer whom he met on the set of ''Colonel Founder / Awake my Love'' two years earlier, was originally from Broken Hill, then Adelaide, and had moved to Sydney to design the costumes for the New South Wales sesqui-centenary pageant. Max and Thelma did not have children. Death Afford died of cancer on 2 No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cairns Post
''The Cairns Post'' is a major News Corporation newspaper in Far North Queensland, Australia, that exclusively serves the Cairns area. It has daily coverage on local, state, national and world news, plus a wide range of sections and liftouts covering health, beauty, cars and lifestyle. ''The Cairns Post'' is published every weekday and a weekend edition which is called ''The Weekend Post'' which is published on Saturdays. It is the oldest business in Cairns and has been operating continuously for more than a century. In 2013, ''The Cairns Post'' won the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association (PANPA) Award for best regional Newspaper of the Year Dailies (5-6-7 days) circulation 10,000-25,000. In March 2015, Jennifer Spilsbury was appointed editor, becoming the first female editor in the paper's 132-year history. She replaced editor Andy Van Smeerdijk. History A prior newspaper that was also called ''The Cairns Post'' was first published on 10 May 1883. It was founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Plays Adapted For Radio
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Stage Plays By Max Afford
Stage or stages may refer to: Acting * Stage (theatre), a space for the performance of theatrical productions * Theatre, a branch of the performing arts, often referred to as "the stage" * ''The Stage'', a weekly British theatre newspaper * Stages Repertory Theatre, a theatre company in Houston, Texas Music * Stage, an American band featuring Ryan Star * ''Stage'', a 2002 book and DVD documenting Britney Spears' Dream Within a Dream Tour Albums * ''Stage'' (David Bowie album), 1978 * ''Stage'' (Great White album), 1995 * ''Stage'' (Keller Williams album), 2004 * ''Stage'', by Mónica Naranjo, 2009 * ''The Stage'' (album), by Avenged Sevenfold, or the title song (see below), 2016 * ''Stages'' (Cassadee Pope album), 2019 * ''Stages'' (Elaine Paige album), 1983 * ''Stages'' (Eric Clapton album), 1993 * ''Stages'' (Jimi Hendrix album), 1991 * ''Stages'' (Josh Groban album), 2015 * ''Stages'' (Melanie C album), 2012 * ''Stages'' (Triumph album), 1985 * ''Stages'' (V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940s Australian Plays
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1949 Plays
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AusStage
AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up until the present day. The only repository of Australian performing arts in the world, it is managed by a consortium of universities, government agencies, industry organisations and arts institutions, and mostly funded by the Australian Research Council. Created in 2000, the database contained more than 250,000 records by 2018. History The AusStage project was instigated by the Australasian Drama Studies Association in 1999, with Flinders University in South Australia leading the project, funded by a grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Other collaborating universities were La Trobe University (Vic), University of Queensland, University of New South Wales, University of Western Australia, University of New England (NSW), Newc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Theatre
Independent Theatre, formerly known as The Independent Theatre Ltd., was an Australian dramatic society founded in 1930 by Dame Doris Fitton in Sydney, Australia. It is also the name given to the building it occupied from 1939 (then known as the Coliseum Theatre), now owned by Wenona School, in North Sydney, cited as Sydney's oldest live theatre venue. History The society was named for London's Independent Theatre Society founded by J. T. Grein and was one of several amateur drama groups of high standard which sprang up in Sydney in the 1930s to fill the gap left by the closure of all but two professional theatres (the last spoken-word theatre to close was The Criterion theatre in 1936, leaving only the Tivoli, which ran vaudeville, and the Theatre Royal, which played musicals and ballets). The range of plays essayed was impressive – from classics to avant-garde pieces, from recent West End and Broadway successes (sometimes the Australian premiere) to offerings from local dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Hollyer
Joy Hollyer was an Australian writer whose career ranged from the 1940s until the 1970s. She collaborated a number of times on radio scripts with Edmund Barclay Edmund Piers Barclay (2 May 1898 – 26 August 1961) was an English-Australian writer known for his work in radio drama. Radio historian Richard Lane called him "Australian radio's first great writer and, many would say, Australian radio's gr ... She wrote a large number of adaptations for ABC radio as well as television scripts, short stories and plays for children. Select credits *'' Tales of the Southern Cross'' – radio play for children *''Silver Wedding'' (1958) – radio play *'' The Tyrant Years'' (1958) – radio play *'' The Story of Good Will'' (1959) – TV pantomime References External linksJoy Hollyerat AustLitJoy Hollyerat AusstageJoy Hollyer scriptsat Fryer Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Hollyer, Joy Australian radio writers Year of birth missing Year of death missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Glenwright
Gordon Charles Glenwright (17 March 1918 – 25 May 1985) was an Australian actor, stage manager and playwright. He was familiar to audiences for his appearances on stage, television and film. He described himself as a "tradesman". Glenwright served as a lieutenant in the Australian Army during the Second World War. Glenwright subsequently started his career in theatre in the late 1940s, and starting in moving to television roles from the mid-1950s, he primarily appeared in serials and telemovies. Select TV Credits *''Hamlet'' (1959) *''The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day'' (1960) *''I Have Been Here Before ''I Have Been Here Before'' is a play by J. B. Priestley, first produced by Lewis Casson at the Royalty Theatre, London, on 22 September 1937. Plot introduction At a rural inn on a Yorkshire moor, three people become involved in a strange confr ...'' (1964) *'' Escape from Singapore'' (1974) References External links * Australian male actors 1918 births 1985 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neva Carr Glyn
Neva Carr Glyn or Neva Carr Glynn (born Neva Josephine Mary Carr Glyn, 10 May 1908 – 10 August 1975) was an Australian stage, film and radio actress born in Melbourne to Arthur Benjamin Carr Glyn (died 16 January 1923), a humorous baritone and stage manager born in Ireland, and Marie Carr Glyn (late Mola), née Marie Dunoon Senior (10 June 1874 – 24 December 1953), an actress with the stage name "Marie Avis".Lane, Richard ''The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama'' Melbourne University Press 1994 She had one half-sister Gwendoline Arnold O'Neill and two half-brothers Sacheverill Arnold Mola and Rupert Arnold Mola. She was named "Neva" after a great-aunt, who was a contralto of some quality. Both spellings of her surname appear in print roughly equally and apparently arbitrarily. Early career Neva was born while her parents were with the Fred Niblo company touring the J. C. Williamson circuit. Her theatrical debut was four months later, in New Zealand, when Fred Niblo carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
