The Clostin Case single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 1962... 1962 The Clostin Case
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon In Writing Raymond Bowers , London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1956 21660261 1956 single work film/TV

'Clostin is not a pleasant man to have dealings with. He is agreeable enough to meet for he has charm and an easy manner. But he is in all things an opportunist, a schemer. He married for money, calculatingly, and for all his casual airs there is something calculating about everything he does. From the very beginning of tonight's play Clostin is planning something. For much of the time he is improvising, feeling his way, trying cleverly to find out what his wife Anne has in mind, where Peebles fits in, what Hurst has learnt from the others. And if this shrouds the play in mystery that is as it should be, for it is a play of detection, a subtle account of a battle of wits.'

Source: Radio Times, 30 December 1955, p.15.

form y separately published work icon In Writing Raymond Bowers , Melbourne : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1961 21672780 1961 single work radio play

'Mystery drama by Australian author Raymond Bowers. John Clostin returns to England after a six months sojourn in Australia to find that his wife wants to divroce him. He has other ideas, for during his absence his wife has inherited a substantial sum of money.'

Source: 'Radio Plays', The Age, 6 April 1961, p. 2 [TV/radio supplement].

Production Details

  • Presented at Richmond Theatre from 7 May 1962.

    Director: Robert Peake.

    Décor: John Piper.

    Cast: Emrys Jones (Clostin), Anne Ridler (Anne), Frederick Farley (Peebles), patrick Barr (Hurst), Edward Rhodes (Daniels), John Ringrose (Bowman), and Elisabeth Dunbar (Waitress).

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