Directed by Christoper Muir Written by Arthur Chipper Director Christoper Muir Producer Christopher Muir | Produced by Christopher Muir Country Australia Running time 2h 5m | |
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Based on play by William Shakespeare Release date 17 June 1959 (Melbourne) (live) Production company Australian Broadcasting Corporation | ||
Antony and Cleopatra is a 1959 Australian TV play based on the play by William Shakespeare.
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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.
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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.