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'The story revolves round a young girl whose early fascination for a foreign ventriloquist leaves her with his doll, £1,000, and an accompanying "dark enchantment".'
Source:
'Australian Play "Needs Overhaul"', News, 28 June 1949, p.15.
Adaptations
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Dark Enchantment
1960
(Manuscript version)x400786
Z854776
1960
single work
radio play
fantasy
thriller
A radio adaptation of Max Afford's successful 1949 stage play, Dark Enchantment, by radio script-writer Joy Hollyer.
Production Details
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Australia:
First produced for the Minerva Theatre in Sydney, from 27 June 1949 to 29 August 1949.
Producer: Fifi Banvard.
Cast members included: Georgie Sterling, Richard Parry, Neva Carr-Glyn, Grant Taylor, Daphne Winslow, Betty Duncan, and Charles Zoli.
Costumes: Thelma Afford.
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England:
Hubert Woodward, a London-based backer of plays, took Dark Enchantment for a tour of provincial circuits, with an option to produce it in London at the end of the tour. Afford apparently substantially re-wrote the play for this production.
The play opened in Bournemouth in early March 1950.
So far, no London production has been traced.
Cast members included Nova Pilbeam.
