form y separately published work icon Half Light single work   radio play  
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 Half Light
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Half Light is set in the New South Wales timber country, where logging townships have sprung up among forests of giant trees. As night falls, a great loneliness descends upon these centres, in the half-light.

'In one such town Frank Vickers is manager of a timber company. He is happily married, with his wife Nora and son Barry. Then into his life comes Joanna Fairweather, to whom he was engaged 12 years earlier.

'She is a strange woman, intensely lonely and seemingly grateful for the friendship given her by Frank and Nora. But gradually she begins to exert an insidious influence on the household—undermining the atmosphere of happy domesticity—until it becomes apparent that she is a bitter, fanatical woman, determined to take revenge for the happiness she feels she has missed in her life.

'One person, however, a tough woods man named Ted Michael, realises her true character. As Joanna’s vicious cunning increases, the action mounts to a tensely dramatic climax.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays of the Week', ABC Weekly, 18 March 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2GB and 3AW on 19 March 1950, from 8pm, as part of Caltex Theatre.

    Cast includes Neva Carr Glynn (Joanna Fairweather), with John Tate, Alan White, Babs Mayhew, and Ray Hartley.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: 2GB , 1950 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon Caltex Theatre Melbourne : Macquarie Network , 1948 14526974 1948 series - publisher radio play

      Radio series, including, but not limited to, adaptations of well known novels and plays. 

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