The Cherry Orchard
Directed byDavid Zweck
Based onplay by Anton Chekhov
Produced byexecutive
Oscar Whitbread
StarringGoogie Withers
Frank Thring
Wendy Hughes
Simon Chilvers
Production
company
ABC
Distributed byABC
Release dates
9 May 1973 (Melbourne)[1]
21 June 1973 (Sydney)[2]
Running time
120 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

The Cherry Orchard is a 1973 Australian TV adaptation of the 1904 play by Anton Chekhov.[3][4]

Cast

Production

Googie Withers appeared in the play for the Melbourne Theatre Company in 1972 directed by John Sumner. The play was also toured throughout Australia in 1973.[1]

It was the second time a Melbourne Theatre Company production had been filmed by the ABC, the previous one being The Man Who Shot the Albatross in 1972.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Googie's Cherry Orchard". The Age. 3 May 1973. p. 2.
  2. ^ "TOP STARS IN NEW TCN9 SERIES". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 20 June 1973. p. 10. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  3. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford University Press, 1996 p26
  4. ^ "Googie in Chekov play". The Sydney Morning Herald TV Guide. 18 June 1973. p. 4.
  5. ^ "Googie's stage role on television". The Age TV Guide. 4 January 1973. p. 1.

External links


Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (1904)
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