 Contributor |
Richard Lane
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| Other Names |
Richard Hamilton Lane
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| Gender |
Male |
| Nationality |
Australian |
| Date of Birth |
18 January 1918 |
| Date of Death |
20 February 2008 |
| Functions |
Adaptor, Director, Playwright, Producer, Scriptwriter, Screenwriter
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| Notes |
Distinguished screenwriter for ABC, Crawfords, Grundys television. Adapted classics for ABC radio dramas. |
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- What About Next Year, ABC Television Studios, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, 15 November 1965
- A Game of Numbers, ABC Radio, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 10 November 1963
- Ashes of Roses, ABC Radio, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 12 November 1955
- The Remittance Man, ABC Radio, Melbourne - Russell Street studios, Melbourne, VIC, 23 June 1939
- A Man Was Blind, ABC Radio, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 19 September 1936
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Scriptwriter- The Remittance Man, ABC Radio, Melbourne - Russell Street studios, Melbourne, VIC, 23 June 1939
- A Man Was Blind, ABC Radio, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 19 September 1936
AdaptorPlaywrightProducer
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Leslie Rees - Playwright, Producer
- A Game of Numbers, ABC Radio, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 10 November 1963
- Ashes of Roses, ABC Radio, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 12 November 1955
- The Remittance Man, ABC Radio, Melbourne - Russell Street studios, Melbourne, VIC, 23 June 1939
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- A Game of Numbers, ABC Radio, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 10 November 1963
- Ashes of Roses, ABC Radio, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 12 November 1955
- A Man Was Blind, ABC Radio, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 19 September 1936
- The Remittance Man, ABC Radio, Melbourne - Russell Street studios, Melbourne, VIC, 23 June 1939
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| Resources |
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With this play, originally titled Colonel Light-The Founder, Max Afford won the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper's first prize for a play to celebrate South Australia's centenary in 1936. He rewrote it as Awake My Love, incorporating love interest into a historical drama based on the life of Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia. The play is set in the years 1837-39 and deals mainly with the conflict between Light and autocratic Governor Hindmarsh over the site of the city of Adelaide. The playwright's wife, Thelma Afford designed the decor and costumes.
Article: Richard Lane, Awake My Love, Companion To Theatre In Australia, 1995, 76
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Article: Richard Lane, Harvey Adams, Companion To Theatre In Australia, 1995, 24
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During the 1940s, when Max Afford was the foremost writer of commercial radio serials in Australia, he diligently wrote stage plays and had commercial successes at a time when it was almost unknown for an Australian management to produce a local play. At the Theatre Royal on Sydney in 1944 J.C. Williamson’s produced his comedy-thriller Lady in Danger and his Mischief in the Air, a comedy set in Sydney commercial radio. Lady in Danger was also presented in New York City in 1944. In 1947 Independent Theatre in Sydney presented Afford’s Awake My Love, a rewriting of his Colonel Light – The Founder, which won the Adelaide Advertiser’s first prize for a play to celebrate the centenary of South Australia in 1936. His last play, Dark Enchantment, was produced at the Minerva Theatre in Sydney in 1949, and in 1950 it began a tour in England.
Article: Richard Lane, Max Afford, Companion To Theatre In Australia, 1995, 33
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Book: Richard Lane, National Film and Sound Archive, The golden age of Australian radio drama, 1923-1960: a history through biography, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, VIC, 1994
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Manuscript: Richard Lane, Robert Amos, A Game of Numbers: A Play in Three Acts [adapted for radio], The University of Queensland, Fryer Library
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Playscript: Richard Lane, The Remittance Man, Australian Radio Plays, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1946, 29-54
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Review: F W W Rhodes, The Living Drama, Southerly, 7, 4, 1946, 233-35
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| Works |
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| Data Set |
AusStage |
| Contributor Identifier |
452817 |
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