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''Spoiled'' is a television and stage play by
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, first broadcast by the
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in 1968 as part of ''
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'' series and later adapted for the stage. It is set over a single weekend in the house of a schoolmaster, Howarth, who invites one of his
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French students to his home to do some last-minute cramming before an exam. Howarth has an almost unnatural enthusiasm, while his student, Donald, is painfully shy. Meanwhile, Howarth's pregnant wife is far from happy about having someone to stay in the midst of her fears about parenting.


Characters

*Howarth *Donald *Joanna *Les *Mrs Clenham


Television production

''Spoiled'' was originally a play written for the BBC's ''
The Wednesday Play ''The Wednesday Play'' is an anthology series of United Kingdom, British television plays which ran on BBC One, BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually original works written for television, although dramati ...
'' series, broadcast first on 28 August 1968, and again on 9 July 1969. It was directed by
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and produced by
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. Believed to be
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, it had the following cast: The production was
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after broadcast and no copies are known to exist. *Howarth- Michael Craig *Donald -
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*Joanna -
Simon Ward Simon Anthony Fox Ward (16 October 194120 July 2012) was a British stage and film actor. He was known chiefly for his performance as Winston Churchill in the 1972 film ''Young Winston''. He played many other screen roles, including those of Sir ...
*Les - Mark Rose *Mr Wyecroft - Will Leighton *Mrs Clenham -
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Stage

''Spoiled'' was adapted by the author for the stage and first performed at the Close Theatre Club, Glasgow, in 1970, directed by Stephen Hollis. It had the following cast: *Howarth- Daniel Massey *Donald -
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*Joanna -
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*Les -
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*Mrs Clenham - Pamela Pitchford The play was then performed at the
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, London, also directed by Stephen Hollis, from 24 February 1971. It had the following cast: *Howarth-
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*Donald -
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*Joanna -
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*Les -
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*Mrs Clenham - Pamela Pitchford


Australian TV version

The film was adapted for Australian TV in 1974. It was one of a number of stage productions filmed by the ABC in the early 1970s. For ''Spoiled'' the ABC filmed an adaptation of a production of the play at the Independent Theatre. Others that year included ''
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'', ''
The Misanthrope ''The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover'' (french: Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux; ) is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière. It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris b ...
'' and ''
A Hard God ''A Hard God'' is a semi-autobiographical play by Peter Kenna.Leslie Rees, ''Australian Drama in the 1970s'', Angus & Robertson, 1978 p 192-194 The play was very popular and has come to be regarded as an Australian classic. 1974 Film The Nimrod ...
''.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p146


Cast

* Peter Carroll as the schoolmaster * Judith Fisher as his wife * Michael Fuller * Tony Sheldon as the boy * Shirley Summers


Reception

''The Age'' felt it was "a gay play that had nothing to say... incident outweighed insight."


References


Sources

*Gray, Simon. ''Simon Gray: Plays 1''. London, Faber and Faber, 2010. *
Simon Gray website
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