form y separately published work icon The Mingled Yarn single work   radio play  
Alternative title: The Mingled Yarn: A Play Upon the Life of Shakespeare
Is part of Radio Drama Week [1937] 1937 series - publisher radio play
Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 The Mingled Yarn
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Edmund Barclay's 'speculation on the character and life of Shakespeare, and whether he was a self-conscious poet or a much harassed and overworked playwright trying both to beat the clock and please the box office' ('Radio-Drama Week', p.3).

Brisbane's Telegraph newspaper introduces its review of the play by suggesting:

'Edmund Barclay's contribution to drama week, is also a work requiring bigness of outlook. It rests securely on the beautiful and richness of the imagery in its lines, rather than on plot, or on subtlety of characterisation. It is episodic in character, treating of the days of the Mermaid Tavern, and Will Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe and Ben Jonson, and many others of that Elizabethan ilk...' ('4QG Has a Busy Night,' p.28).

Notes

  • The 1937 Brisbane and Perth productions, although broadcast on the same day, were independently produced and performed.

    The broadcast was scheduled for Shakespeare's traditionally-accepted birthday - 23 April.

Production Details

  • 1937: 4GQ, Brisbane; 23 April.

    • Producer Dion Wheeler (for the Australian Broadcasting Commission)
    • Cast incl. George Randell (William Shakespeare), Bebe Scott and Dulcie Scott.
    • Broadcast during the ABC's Radio Drama Week.

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Works about this Work

4QG Has a Busy Night - Three Outstanding Units A Pianist, a Play, and a Cantata 1937 single work review
— Appears in: The Telegraph , 24 April 1937; (p. 28)
— Review of The Mingled Yarn Edmund Barclay , 1937 single work radio play

'Edmund Barclay's contribution to drama week, is also a work requiring bigness of outlook. It rests securely on the beautiful and richness of the imagery in its lines, rather than on plot, or on subtlety of characterisation. It is episodic in character, treating of the days of the Mermaid Tavern, and Will Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe and Ben Jonson, and many others of that Elizabethan ilk...' ('4QG Has a Busy Night,' p.28).
4QG Has a Busy Night - Three Outstanding Units A Pianist, a Play, and a Cantata 1937 single work review
— Appears in: The Telegraph , 24 April 1937; (p. 28)
— Review of The Mingled Yarn Edmund Barclay , 1937 single work radio play

'Edmund Barclay's contribution to drama week, is also a work requiring bigness of outlook. It rests securely on the beautiful and richness of the imagery in its lines, rather than on plot, or on subtlety of characterisation. It is episodic in character, treating of the days of the Mermaid Tavern, and Will Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe and Ben Jonson, and many others of that Elizabethan ilk...' ('4QG Has a Busy Night,' p.28).
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