Fear is a 1930 Australian stage play by Ruth Bedford.[1]
It was presented in 1940.[2]
According to the Daily News, "It dealt with a husband and wife In a cottage on a lonely moor as a storm raged outside. The husband, possessed by fear, bears a cry coming over the moor. His wife, with whom he is much in love, seeks to comfort him. 'But through every crevice fear finds a way... ' Although this play is at times marked by quite a beautiful flow of language, it fails completely to satisfy."[3]
According to Wireless Weekly "The poetry was the only interest. As drama, it just wasn’t."[4]
Radio version
editBedford adapted it into a radio play. This was broadcast by the ABC as part of a series of ten verse dramas on radio. The others included The Golden Lover, The Real Betrayal, We're Going Through, It Has Happened Before, Mined Gold, Succubus, The Unmapped Lands, Brief Apocalypse, and Richard Bracken-Farmer.[5]
The play was performed by members of Sydney University Dramatic Society.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Community Playhouse". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 28,953. 21 October 1930. p. 4. Retrieved 1 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Australian Play Night At N.T.L." Daily News. Vol. 2, no. 458. 18 May 1940. p. 9. Retrieved 1 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Drought, Dread Domesticity & Darlinghurst". Daily News. Vol. 2, no. 464. New South Wales, Australia. 25 May 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 1 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "The Little Theatres", The Wireless Weekly, June 1, 1940, retrieved 1 February 2024 – via Trove
- ^ "Ten new verse plays", ABC Weekly, 20 March 1943, retrieved 1 February 2024 – via Trove
- ^ "Broadcast by S.U.D.S.", ABC Weekly, vol. 5, no. 26, 26 June 1943, retrieved 1 February 2024 – via Trove
External links
edit- Fear at Ausstage