Voyage Out
{{Infobox television episode
| series = Australian Plays
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| season = 1
| episode = 2
| director = John Croyston
| teleplay = John Croyston
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| airdate = {{Start date|1969|11|05|df=yes}}
| length = 70 mins{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107901572 |title=WEDNESDAY |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=44|issue=12,458 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=3 November 1969 |access-date=14 September 2020 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}
| guests =
| prev = Dynasty
| next = The Cheerful Cuckold
}}
"Voyage Out" is a 1969{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=TV Guide|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/124572648/?terms=%22voyage%20out%22&match=1|date=30 October 1969|page=42}} Australian TV play. It aired as part of the Australian Plays anthology series on the ABC.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19691011&id=6i4gAAAAIBAJ&pg=1538,4243828&hl=en|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Six Australian Plays in ABC Series|page=121|first=Valda|last=Marshall}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107903319 |title=Letters TO THE EDITOR |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=44|issue=12,467 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=13 November 1969 |access-date=14 September 2020 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107900206 |title=Australian plays on ABC-TV |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=44|issue=12,452 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=27 October 1969 |access-date=14 September 2020 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/60-australian-tv-plays-1950s-60s/|magazine=Filmink|title=60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s|date=February 18, 2019}}
Premise
A woman, Kathy, decides to reject a series of fleeting physical encounters and believes she has found her ideal mate in Robert, a poet. Robert cannot believe he has the power to hold her and they both strive to convince themselves and everyone else that they are happy.
She discovers her husband Robert is dead.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107902275 |title=TELEVISION Frank in colour |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=44 |issue=12,462 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=7 November 1969 |access-date=18 February 2019 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Cast
- Pat Bishop as Kathy Harper
- Ray Hartley as Robert Harper
- Alistair Duncan as Eddy
- Margo Lee as Tessa
- Jeff Kevin as Peter
- Don Crosby as Jack
Reception
The Canberra Times thought Croyston's "sympathetic direction saved the play and gave it something it otherwise lacked. On the other hand perhaps a director without the bond of authorship could have been more ruthless and speeded it up. The story was unsubtle, rather melodramatic. It did have some surprisingly perceptive and original moments, however, such as when Kathy discovers
Robert with his head in the gas oven and in her shock begins to beat his dead body calling him a "revolting little man". Food for thought: had she always hated him? The most important thing is that the plays are being televised. If they are not BBC standard at least they are getting an airing."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107902275 |title=TELEVISION Frank in colour |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=44|issue=12,462 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=7 November 1969 |access-date=14 September 2020 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Reviewing the year in Australian TV, The Age said the six plays of Australian Plays were "more dull than bad with the exception of "A Voyage Out" notable for the TV debut of the diminutive Ray Hartley who played child parts in radio series."{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121354300/?terms=%22voyage%20out%22&match=1|newspaper=The Age|date=24 December 1969|page=12|title=Women Led the Way|last=Televiewer}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb episode|10360188}}
{{John Croyston}}
Category:1960s Australian television plays
Category:1969 television plays
Category:1969 Australian television episodes
Category:Australian Plays season 1 episodes
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