Objector (film)

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"Objector"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 25
Teleplay byTony Morphett
Produced byBrian Faull[1]
Original air date3 October 1966
Running time30 mins
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Objector is a 1966 television play by Tony Morphett broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.[2] It was part of the Australian Playhouse series.[3] Morphett went on to become one of the leading writers in Australian television.[4]

Plot[]

A man is conscripted to fight in Vietnam. He wants to go to court to argue against his and his father, a war veteran, calls him a coward.[5]

Cast[]

Production[]

Morphett originally wrote the story as a short story for the Adelaide Festival Literary Contest. It was written soon after the Federal Government introduced conscription for Vietnam, but Morphett says it is not “a propagandist play.” [5]

It was filmed in Sydney.[6]

Reception[]

The Bulletin TV critic said the "play kept wandering from prose poetry to plain Australian and back again, like a novice punter trying to pick a two-horse race without a form guide."[7]

The Age said it was "a drama so true to life it hurt."[8] A different critic from the same paper said it "wasn't really a play. It was merely sort of a visual illustration of a voice told by a narrative in the background. The viewer was supposed to exercise his imagination... An actor is supposed to play a part."[9]

The same paper later called it "a noteworthy example how a dramatist can contribute to a worthy understanding."[10]

See also[]

  • List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)

References[]

  1. ^ "Conscription". The Age. 29 September 1966. p. 33.
  2. ^ "Varied views on Conscription today". The Canberra Times. 43 (12, 177). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 7 December 1968. p. 13. Retrieved 11 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "TELEVISION Nothing dull on a Wacky Ship". The Canberra Times. 41 (11, 505). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 October 1966. p. 11. Retrieved 1 March 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b The bulletin, John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880, retrieved 23 March 2019
  6. ^ "When a play gets up and walks". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 October 1966. p. 86.
  7. ^ The bulletin, John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880, retrieved 23 March 2019
  8. ^ "Teletopics". The Age. 6 October 1966. p. 13.
  9. ^ Monitor (8 October 1966). "For parents and teachers". The Age. p. 25.
  10. ^ Televiewer (29 December 1966). "Staying true to one's viewing". The Age. p. 9.

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