Genre | Drama play |
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Running time | 60 mins (7:30 pm – 8:30 pm) |
Country of origin | Australia |
Language(s) | English |
Hosted by | ABC |
Written by | Catherine Shepherd |
Directed by | Dion Wheeler |
Original release | 14 August 1950 |
Balzac is a 1950 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd about the writer Balzac. It was one of a series of biographies on writers written by Shepherd. [1]
The play was commissioned by the ABC to commemorate the anniversary of Balzac's death. This was rare for the ABC. [2]
The play was produced again in 1952. [3]
The Age called it "a thoroughly artificial picture of the subject. Never once during the 60 minutes the play ran was one ever really convinced that Balzac was a genius with a place in the long succession of literary giants. No amount of subtlp acting could have created that illusion either." [4]
A review from the same paper of the 1952 production called it "good reporting rather than good art, put over by competent actors." [5]
Shepherd later adapted a Balzac novel The Miner's Daughter for radio in 1959. [6]
"Catherine Shepherd’s play is concerned with Balzac’s life in Paris, and with various women who played a great part in it: his mother, who hated him; his sister Laure and her friend, Zulma Carraud, who loved him dearly; and Madame de Hanska, the beautiful Russian woman whom he married shortly before his death." [7]
Genre | Drama play |
---|---|
Running time | 60 mins (7:30 pm – 8:30 pm) |
Country of origin | Australia |
Language(s) | English |
Hosted by | ABC |
Written by | Catherine Shepherd |
Directed by | Dion Wheeler |
Original release | 14 August 1950 |
Balzac is a 1950 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd about the writer Balzac. It was one of a series of biographies on writers written by Shepherd. [1]
The play was commissioned by the ABC to commemorate the anniversary of Balzac's death. This was rare for the ABC. [2]
The play was produced again in 1952. [3]
The Age called it "a thoroughly artificial picture of the subject. Never once during the 60 minutes the play ran was one ever really convinced that Balzac was a genius with a place in the long succession of literary giants. No amount of subtlp acting could have created that illusion either." [4]
A review from the same paper of the 1952 production called it "good reporting rather than good art, put over by competent actors." [5]
Shepherd later adapted a Balzac novel The Miner's Daughter for radio in 1959. [6]
"Catherine Shepherd’s play is concerned with Balzac’s life in Paris, and with various women who played a great part in it: his mother, who hated him; his sister Laure and her friend, Zulma Carraud, who loved him dearly; and Madame de Hanska, the beautiful Russian woman whom he married shortly before his death." [7]