The Sponge Room | |
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Directed by | Patrick Barton |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Running time | 50 mins |
Production company | ABC |
Original release | |
Release | 22 April 1964[1] 9 September 1964 (Sydney) [2] | (Melbourne)
The Sponge Room is an Australian television film which aired in 1964 on ABC. Produced in Melbourne, [3] it aired in a 50-minute time-slot and was an adaptation of an overseas stage play, written by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse. [4]
It is not known if a copy of the television film still exists, given the wiping of the era.
A married man secretly meets with a woman each week at the natural history museum in London. [5]
The play had been produced on stage in Sydney that year under the direction of Ken Hannam. [6] [7] It had also been performed on ABC radio that year. [8]
It was one of 20 TV plays produced by the ABC in 1964. [9]
The Sydney Morning Herald praised Barton using "the extremely effective device" of a background of "complete silence from start to finish". [10]
The Sponge Room | |
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Directed by | Patrick Barton |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Running time | 50 mins |
Production company | ABC |
Original release | |
Release | 22 April 1964[1] 9 September 1964 (Sydney) [2] | (Melbourne)
The Sponge Room is an Australian television film which aired in 1964 on ABC. Produced in Melbourne, [3] it aired in a 50-minute time-slot and was an adaptation of an overseas stage play, written by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse. [4]
It is not known if a copy of the television film still exists, given the wiping of the era.
A married man secretly meets with a woman each week at the natural history museum in London. [5]
The play had been produced on stage in Sydney that year under the direction of Ken Hannam. [6] [7] It had also been performed on ABC radio that year. [8]
It was one of 20 TV plays produced by the ABC in 1964. [9]
The Sydney Morning Herald praised Barton using "the extremely effective device" of a background of "complete silence from start to finish". [10]