Quiet Night (play)

Quiet Night is a 1941 Australian play by Dorothy Blewett.

The play was popular with repertory and amateur theatre groups. It was also adapted for radio and television.

Plot

Doctors and nurses try to save the life of a 20-year-old. During the night the nurses have their own personal dramas.

1952 Radio Version

The play was adapted for radio by the BBC in 1952. The cast included several Australian actresses living in London.[1]

1961 television play
Quiet Night
Based onplay by Dorothy Blewett
Written byWal Cherry
Directed byChristopher Muir
Country of originAustralia
Original language(s)English
Production
Running time60 mins
Production company(s)ABC
Release
Original networkABC
Original release28 June 1961 (Melbourne) [2]

Quiet Night is an Australian television play which aired in 1961 on ABC at a time when Australian TV drama production was relatively rare. The writer and director had previously adapted another Blewett play The First Joanna.[3]

Originally broadcast live in Melbourne on 28 June 1961, it was recorded and also shown in Sydney (it is not known if it was also shown on ABC's stations in Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth).[4]

Plot

Playboy Russell Keane crashes his sports car and is taken to hospital. He is made comfortable by Nurse Sinclair.[5]

Cast
  • Mary Mackey as Sister Murphy
  • Elizabeth Goodman as Sister Rankin
  • Mary Disney as Nurse Sinclair
  • Fay Kelton as Nurse Sparrow
  • Nancy Cato as Nurse Patsy
  • Sonia Borg
  • Paul Karo as Russell Keane
  • Mark Kelly as Doctor Macready
  • Elizabeth Wing as Leila Clayton
  • Michael Duffield as Doctor Clayton
  • Natalie Raine as Matron

Production=

Kevin Bartlett did the sets.[5]

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References
  1. "Sydney's Talking A bout—". The Sydney Morning Herald (35, 747). New South Wales, Australia. 17 July 1952. p. 7. Retrieved 16 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. The Age, 28 June 1961, p.20
  3. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  4. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gKQRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vecDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6941%2C3252342
  5. "Quiet Night is Busy TV Drama". The Age. 22 June 1961. p. 12.


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