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词条 Flowering Cherry
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Adaptations

  3. 1963 Australian TV adaptation

     Cast  Reception 

  4. See also

  5. References

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The Flowering Cherry is a 1958 play written by Robert Bolt.

The play was performed on Broadway in 1959.[1]

Plot

In an English household, the father dreams of giving up his job selling insurance to run an apple orchard, the mother dreams of him giving up his dreams, and the two children have problems of their own .

Adaptations

The play was adapted for British television in 1963.[2]

1963 Australian TV adaptation

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| director = Colin Dean
| producer = Colin Dean
| writer = Noel Robinson
| based on = play by Robert Bolt
| starring = Grant Taylor
| music =
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| editing =
| distributor = ABC
| released = 13 February 1963
| runtime = 75 mins
| country = Australia
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It was filmed for Australian TV in 1963, directed by Colin Dean and starring Grant Taylor, Peter Adams, Don Pascoe, Elizabeth Ferris, Margo Lee, Frank Taylor and Rosalind Seagrave.

It was the first drama to be simultaneously presented in Sydney and Melbourne via coaxial cable.[3][4][5]

Cast

  • Grant Taylor as Mr Cherry
  • Margo Lee as Mrs Cherry
  • Rosalind Seagrave as Taylor's daughter
  • Frank Taylor
  • Elizabeth Ferris
  • Don Pascoe
  • Peter Adams as Taylor's son

Reception

The TV critic for the Sydney Morning Herald thought "Grant Taylor was well in command" of his role but that Colin Dean's production "was rather too crowded."[6] Val Marshall of the same paper called it "a first rate production" in which Taylor and Lee were "brilliant".[7]

The Bulletin wrote that "Given a stronger plot, livelier dialogue, less stagey sets, more imaginative cameras, some television actors, and better make-up, it could have been a good play. Lacking them, it was still tolerable, because the viewer could feel that at least everyone was trying, and that is not a bad beginning for ABC drama production in 1963."[8]

See also

  • Robert Bolt#Plays for more information

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://broadwayworld.com/bwidb/productions/Flowering_Cherry_321360/|title=BroadwayWorld.com – The Flowering Cherry}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1789761/|title=imdb.com - Flowering Cherry (1963)}}
3. ^The Flowering Cherry at National Film and Sound Archive
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104259226 |title=PLAY STAR. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=13 February 1963 |accessdate=9 March 2014 |page=25 |via=National Library of Australia}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104258888 |title=Live Drama On Wednesday. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=11 February 1963 |accessdate=9 March 2014 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}}
6. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Drama Review Bolt Play On Channel 2|date=14 February 1963|page=7}}
7. ^{{cite news|first=Valda|last=Marshall|title=TV Merry Go Round|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=17 February 1963|page=66}}
8. ^{{Citation | | title=The bulletin | publication-date=1880 | publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-684860418 | accessdate=22 March 2019}}
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