Especially written for radio, A Bachelor Reverie explores the romantic phases in Richard Matheson's life as reviewed by him on the eve of his marriage. Portrayed by two actors, the character recalls various people from his childhood to manhood.
A drifting of thoughts, hopes, dreams - some poignant, some amusing, but all strangely woven in the mellower philosophy of later years. With the aid of a metronome, indicating various measures of time, the radio enables us to travel in retropsect with Richard Matheson - a reverie not too serious, or, yet too flippant, recalling past 'selves' and past experiences - in music, mirth and glamour, disillusionment, romance and reality ('A Bachelor Reverie,' Daily Examiner 15 July 1938, p. 11).
1938: Radio station 2BL, Sydney; 20 July
'The forthcoming production by Russell Scott of A Bachelor Reverie from 2BL and 2NR on Wednesday night, July 20, at 9.30 o'clock, is an original radio presentation complete with lyrics by Helene Barclay and music and orchestration specially composed and conducted by Howard Carr...'
'The forthcoming production by Russell Scott of A Bachelor Reverie from 2BL and 2NR on Wednesday night, July 20, at 9.30 o'clock, is an original radio presentation complete with lyrics by Helene Barclay and music and orchestration specially composed and conducted by Howard Carr...'
