"Othello" | |
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Wednesday Theatre episode | |
File:Othello (1965 Australian film).png | |
Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 5 |
Directed by | Patrick Barton |
Teleplay by | Raymond Westwell David Bradley |
Original air dates | 18 November 1964 (Melbourne)[1][2] 3 February 1965 (Sydney) |
Running time | 130 mins[3] |
Othello is a 1965 Australian television play based on the play by William Shakespeare. It was broadcast on the ABC as part of Wednesday Theatre and filmed in the ABC's Melbourne studios.[4]
It was one of the most ambitious projects made in Melbourne going for over two hours without a break.[5] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[6]
The Sydney Morning Herald said "the emotional trivialities of the minor characters were excellently handled" but felt Othello was "rather too much an English country gentleman" and Keith Lee played his part "as a man believing in nothing apart from himself."[7]