Topaze (Wednesday Theatre)

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"Topaze"

Wednesday Theatre episode

Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 13

Directed by

Christopher Muir

Teleplay by

John Warwick

Based on

Topaze
by Marcel Pagnol

Original air date

6 April 1966

Running time

60 mins^[1]

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"Topaze" is a 1966 Australian TV play based on the 1928 play by the French writer Marcel Pagnol.^[2] It aired on 6 April 1966 in Sydney,^[3] on 30 March 1966 in Melbourne,^[4] and on 27 April 1966 in Brisbane.^[5]

Plot

Topaze is a school master sacked for being too honest who, subsequently, becomes involved with thieves.

Cast

Mark Albiston as Topaze
Fernande Glyn as Suzy
Allan Trevor as Castel-Benac
Patricia Kennedy as Baroness
Fay Kelton as Ernestine, daughter of the headmaster
Terry Norris as Tamise
Edward Howell as Journalist
Jack Allan as Muche
Robert Bogden as Roger
Peter Drake as Butler
Diana Wilson as Typist
Christie Clayton as Typist
Ron Hoenig as Pupil

Production

This was director Christopher Muir's first production back in Australia after six months abroad.^[6] It was the first locally produced edition of Wednesday Theatre for 1966. The production was given an Edwardian setting designed by Cass van Pufelen.^[4]

Muir said "essentially the play shows how men can be corrupted by power. Marcel Pagnol... begins all his plays as amusing, lighthearted comedies. However as the plot unfolds you find there's some extremely important point which he's trying to get across. In Topaze we see how a timid, almost stupid person becomes a cold hearted business tycoon. The peculiar twists of fate which produce a totally different man give you something to think about."^[5]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald said "Topaze is a fine French satire and the Melbourne production was impeccable... Nobody could complain about how it was done. But to the Australian people... of 1966 it could only look and sound like a fussy little piece about some French types who may have lived 40 years ago...The A.B.C. has no right to spend money, time and effort on a little show. In fact, the executives who selected Pagnol's play could take a cue from one line spoken by Fernunde Glyn: "I think you might go out and meet people"."^[7]

References

^ "TV Guide". The Age. 30 March 1966. p. 14.
^ "TODAY'S TV". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 6 April 1966. p. 23. Retrieved 11 February 2020 – via Trove.
^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 4 April 1966. p. 19.
^ ^a ^b "Beauty in Business". The Age. 24 March 1966. p. 15.
^ ^a ^b "TV version of Peter Sellers comedy film". TV Times. 20 April 1966. p. 13.
^ "Producer who has returned to television an optimist". The Age. 13 January 1966. p. 12.
^ Robinson, Harry (April 8, 1966). "Gleason's Formula for Success". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 8.

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Operas	Amahl and the Night Visitors (1957) Fidelo (1958) Albert Herring (1959) The Bartered Bride (1960) The Secret of Susannah (1961) Il Tabarro (1961) The Ambitious Servant Girl (1962) The Prodigal Son (1962) The Consul (1962) Bastien and Bastienne (1963) Simone Boccanegra (1963) Peter Grimes (1964) The Bloodless Sand (1964) Martha (1964) Carmen (1965)
Ballets	Giselle (1959) Ballet Studio (1959) The Nutcracker (1960) Coppelia (1960) The Bloodless Sand (1961) Sylvia (1961) Caranval (1961) The Spider's Banquet (1963) One in Five (1963) Robert Pomie Ballet (1963) Hans Christian Anderson (1963) The New Horizon (1964) The Fir Tree (1964) Seven Deadly Sins (1965) She (1967)
Feature film	Libido (1973)
TV series	Lucky Colour Blue (1975) (TV series) Andra (1976) (TV series) Golden Pennies (1985) (TV mini series) Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1988)

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