Antony and Cleopatra (1959 film)

Antony and Cleopatra
Directed byChristoper Muir
Produced byChristopher Muir
Written byArthur Chipper
Based onplay by William Shakespeare
Production
company
Release date
17 June 1959 (Melbourne) (live)
Running time
125 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Antony and Cleopatra is a 1959 Australian television play based on the play by William Shakespeare.[1]

It was broadcast live in Melbourne then recorded and screened in Sydney. The ABC also broadcast a production of Hamlet at the same time, which was broadcast live in Sydney then recorded and screened in Melbourne.[2]

Cast

  • Bettie Kauffman as Cleopatra
  • Keith Eden as Antony
  • Kevin Miles as Caesar

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald critic wrote that:

Not much of the pomp and poetry came through the rich texture of Shakespeare's language in the... production.. although as a straightforward account of love and war this Melbourne performance Was satisfactory enough. Two things helped to lower the temperature of the love and the language; first, Arthur Chipper's rearrangement of the first half of the play was quite skillful, but the cutting was on a political rather than on a passionate bias, and second, producer Christopher Muir'_s use of cameras and- lighting did little—except in a few scenes — to imaginatively underline the play's mood, atmosphere, and growing tensions.[3]

The Bulletin also gave it a bad review.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "A BIG NEW DEAL FOR COLOR TV". The Australian Women's Weekly. 27 (7). 22 July 1959. p. 50. Retrieved 21 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Two Productions of Shakespeare". Sydney Morning Herald. 15 June 1959. p. 17.
  3. ^ "Live Antony and Cleopatra on TV". Sydney Morning Herald. 9 July 1959. p. 6.
  4. ^ The bulletin, John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880, retrieved 23 March 2019

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