The Medium (TV Play)
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''The Medium'' is a 1960 Australian television production. It was a filmed version of the opera by
Menotti Menotti may refer to the following people: ;Given name *Menotti Aristone (c.1942–2013), American jockey *Menotti de Tomazzo Sobrinho (born 1943), Brazilian football player *Menotti Del Picchia (1892–1988), Brazilian poet, journalist and painte ...
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Cast

*Jon Dennis *Neil Easton as Mr. Gobineau *Joan Grey as Mrs. Nolan *Nita Maughan as Mrs. Gobineau *Jane Ross as Monica *Margaret Winkler as Madame Flora


Production

It was directed by Alan Burke who later recalled he liked the opera "because it seemed to have visual opportunities and I thought it would work very well in television" being done in one set. He felt Menotti was "a poor man's Puccini... which is why the ABC was not all that keen to do it. But he is enormously effective theatrically. ''The Medium'' would make a wonderful movie score - so what better than to make a little television score with it? So we did that and pulled a few tricks - it led itself to very low key lighting."Interview with Alan Burke
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See also

* List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)


References


External links

* Australian television plays 1960 television plays Australian television plays based on operas Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming English-language television shows Australian live television shows Black-and-white Australian television shows Films directed by Alan Burke (director) {{Australia-tv-film-stub