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The Schoolmistress is a 1967 Australian TV play based on The Schoolmistress by Arthur Wing Pinero. John Croyston directed based on a stage play presented by Alexander Hay. It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre.[1] It aired on 15 March 1967 in Sydney and went for 90 minutes.[2]

Plot

At a girls school one of the girls is secretly married to a young man her parents have forbidden her to see.

Cast

Production

It was a TV version of a production of the play that was then running at the Old Tote.[3]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald to put the play "into the telly machine is like asking a Ford Mustang to run on oats" but admitted "_Croyston's lighting and camera movements show detailed thought and are worked to effect. He cannot help losing colour or the third dimension, but he has kept the essential frothiness and has puffed it further with cleverly caught close-ups and so on" but that "the 90 minutes of TV seem to take longer than the 140 minutes of theatre."[3]

References

  1. ^ "Old Tote Production". Sydney Morning Herald. March 13, 1967. p. 17.
  2. ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 13 March 1967. p. 18.
  3. ^ a b "ON TELEVISION Schoolmistress in the box}". Sydney Morning Herald. March 14, 1967. p. 17.
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