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'''''Easy Terms''''' is a 1966 TV play broadcast by the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]. It was an episode of the anthology ''[[Australian Playhouse]]'' and was written by [[Pat Flower]]. |
'''''Easy Terms''''' is a 1966 TV play broadcast by the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]. It was an episode of the anthology ''[[Australian Playhouse]]'' and was written by [[Pat Flower]]. |
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==Cast== |
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*Gerda Nicholson |
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==Reception== |
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The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' critic accused it and ''Marleen'' of having "hollow nothingness."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19661229&id=P6EpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7-cDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5748,404257&hl=en|title=The Sydney Morning Herald - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|accessdate=12 June 2017}}</ref> |
The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' critic accused it and ''Marleen'' of having "hollow nothingness."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19661229&id=P6EpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7-cDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5748,404257&hl=en|title=The Sydney Morning Herald - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|accessdate=12 June 2017}}</ref> |
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The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' said "This was Miss Flower's sixth or seventh in the scries — even the faithful have lost count — and it only increased the wonder at how her scripts are accepted so frequently. Set in an "op" art flat crammed with sterile bad taste, the characters were creatures who could not exist. They endlessly gave smart chatter such as: "Kiddies are only an afterthought" . . "My husband may pop off with a popsie" . . . "We can make our own earth here in Heaven." A sermon on the folly of selling one' s soul for trashy possessions may have lurked there — may have, but who wants a sermon in a playhouse?"<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sudney Morning Herald|title=On Television|date=October 25, 1966|page=14}}</ref> |
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The ''Canberra Times'' said "there cannot be very many viewers left these days for the Australian Playhouse series on ABC, which has rapidly become The Pat Flower Show... ''Easy Terms'' makes a grand total for the authoress of nine out of twenty-eight, which is over thirty-two per cent. No one, I am sure, would be even inclined to comment and everyone would wish her luck if they were becoming more and more entertaining, but a play like Easy Terms, a creaking |
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study of possession-culture "fantacised", was surely more suitable fora select a.udience in experimental Jane St. Theatre, Kensington, than for general entertainment."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106943217 |title=TELEVISION That silent report |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=41, |issue=11,520 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=28 October 1966 |accessdate=25 February 2019 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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*[[List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)]] |
*[[List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)]] |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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*[https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106357 ''Easy Terms''] at [[Ausstage]] |
*[https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106357 ''Easy Terms''] at [[Ausstage]] |
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*[https://www-austlit-edu-au/austlit/page/7106988 ''Easy Terms''] at [[AustLit]] |
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[[Category:Australian television plays]] |
[[Category:Australian television plays]] |
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[[Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation shows]] |
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Revision as of 04:50, 25 February 2019
Easy Terms is a 1966 TV play broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was an episode of the anthology Australian Playhouse and was written by Pat Flower.
Cast
- Gerda Nicholson
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald critic accused it and Marleen of having "hollow nothingness."[1]
The Sydney Morning Herald said "This was Miss Flower's sixth or seventh in the scries — even the faithful have lost count — and it only increased the wonder at how her scripts are accepted so frequently. Set in an "op" art flat crammed with sterile bad taste, the characters were creatures who could not exist. They endlessly gave smart chatter such as: "Kiddies are only an afterthought" . . "My husband may pop off with a popsie" . . . "We can make our own earth here in Heaven." A sermon on the folly of selling one' s soul for trashy possessions may have lurked there — may have, but who wants a sermon in a playhouse?"[2]
The Canberra Times said "there cannot be very many viewers left these days for the Australian Playhouse series on ABC, which has rapidly become The Pat Flower Show... Easy Terms makes a grand total for the authoress of nine out of twenty-eight, which is over thirty-two per cent. No one, I am sure, would be even inclined to comment and everyone would wish her luck if they were becoming more and more entertaining, but a play like Easy Terms, a creaking study of possession-culture "fantacised", was surely more suitable fora select a.udience in experimental Jane St. Theatre, Kensington, than for general entertainment."[3]
See also
References
- ^ "The Sydney Morning Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ^ "On Television". Sudney Morning Herald. October 25, 1966. p. 14.
- ^ "TELEVISION That silent report". The Canberra Times. Vol. 41, , no. 11, 520. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 28 October 1966. p. 15. Retrieved 25 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
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External links
- Easy Terms at Ausstage
- Easy Terms at AustLit
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