The Medium (TV play)

The Medium is a 1960 Australian TV play. It was a filmed version of the opera by Menotti. It was directed by Alan Burke who later recalled:

I liked The Medium because it seemed to have visual opportunities and I thought it would work very well in television. I knew it from records because it was done immediately after WW2. It's compact in that it is done in one set. I think Menotti is a poor man's Puccini. He is not a top flight composer - which is why the ABC was not all that keen to do it. But he is enormously effective theatrically. The Medium would make a wonderful movie score - so what better than to make a little television score with it? So we did that and pulled a few tricks - it led itself to very low key lighting. We did some camera tricks which I had not seen before.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Interview with Alan Burke

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