| 词条 | The Swagman |
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| title = The Swagman | series = Wednesday Theatre | image = | caption = | season = 1 | episode = 13 | director = Henri Safran | teleplay = Ian Stuart Black | producer = | photographer = | airdate = 31 March 1965 | length = 60 mins[1] | guests = | prev = A Season in Hell | next = A Time to Speak }} The Swagman is a 1965 Australian TV play.[2] It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre. Despite being set in Australia, it was written by a British writer. A copy of the production is held at the National Archives of Australia.[3] PlotJack and Jane Bell are a married couple who live on a small sheep farm. Jane is a young English woman who cannot adjust to the isolation of the outback. Jane becomes attracted to the hired hand, a young Australian-born Italian, Tony. Jane and Tony arrange to be alone on the farm for one night, but their romantic plans are spoiled by the arrival of a swagman . Cast
ProductionThe play was written by English author Ian Stuart Black who had never visited Australia. It was selected for production by Henri Safran.[4] The play was shot in ABC's studios in Gore Hill, Sydney. The swagman was played by Edward Hepple, an English-born actor who had recently moved to Australia.[5] ReceptionThe TV critic for The Sydney Morning Herald said Safran "avoided the common fault of accentuating the Australian features" of the play. "An Australian production which does not stamp 'this is Australia' on any local subject matter may be said to make great strides in maturity and competence and there was promising evidence of this in excellent acting, capable camera work and fluency of treatment."[6] Another critic from the same paper said that although the play "had... some holes in its... story big enough to sink the entire cast and author combined, it came off as one of the finest bits of Australian drama from the A.B.C.'s Sydney studios... an absorbing bit of stuff. It plunged straight into the centre of the story with a minimum of preamble, the cast all turned in workmanlike performances, and action and suspense (even with those implausible holes) was sustained to the last."[7] A critic from The Canberra Times said the pay "opens tautly with not a moment wasted in creating the setting for a night of adultery" but that the writer was "unable to sustain this idea in the same vein. Overt blackmail by the tramp becomes the means of this progressive intrusion rather than the more subtle action of the couple's own guilt and fear. Paradoxically, the dramatic inevitability and tension arc shattered.[4] The screening of the program prompted letters of complaint from viewers.[8][9][10][11][12][13] The Canberra Times called it among the best locally produced TV dramas of 1965.[14] Radio versionThe play was adapted for radio and broadcast by the ABC on 30 May 1965.[15] See also
References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131763765 |title=WEDNESDAY |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=39 |issue=11,116 |date=29 March 1965 |accessdate=20 March 2017 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131764923 |title=U.K. playwright, long range view. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=2 April 1965 |accessdate=23 June 2015 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^[https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=13406786&isAv=Y The Swagman] at National Archives of Australia 4. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131764923 |title=U.K. playwright, long range view |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=39 |issue=11,120 |date=2 April 1965 |accessdate=28 March 2017 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Play set on a farm|date=22 March 1965|page=13}} 6. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Play on ABN|date=1 April 1965|page=10}} 7. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|first=Valda|last=Marshall|title=TV round up|date=4 April 1965|page=92}} 8. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131764778 |title=Seeing filth on A.B.C. TV |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=39 |issue=11,120 |date=2 April 1965 |accessdate=28 March 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 9. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131765013 |title=ABC play not sordid |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=39 |issue=11,121 |date=3 April 1965 |accessdate=28 March 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 10. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131765215 |title=Letters to the Editor |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=39 |issue=11,122 |date=5 April 1965 |accessdate=28 March 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 11. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131765458 |title=ABC play only a symptom |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=39 |issue=11,123 |date=6 April 1965 |accessdate=28 March 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 12. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131765717 |title=The healthy disciplined life |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=39 |issue=11,124 |date=7 April 1965 |accessdate=28 March 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 13. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105860287 |title=THE SOUTHERN TABLELAND NATIVE GOES WALKABOUT TO ORANGE Feeding the idiot box. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=6 September 1965 |accessdate=23 June 2015 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 14. ^http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105880447 15. ^The Swagman at AusStage External links
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