A Night Out (1961 film)

A Night Out
Directed by	Alan Burke
Written by	Harold Pinter
Starring	Neva Carr Glynn
Distributed by	ABC
Release date	7 November 1961
Country	Australia
Language	English

A Night Out is a 1961 Australian TV play. It was based on a script by Harold Pinter. It starred John Ewart and Richard Meikle.^[1]

The play had previously been filmed in England in 1960 for Armchair Theater.

Plot

Albert is dominated by his mother. He is driven to an act of violence and attempts to assert his individuality.

Cast

Carole Boyce
Noel Brophy as Mr. King
Neva Carr-Glynn as Mother
James Elliott
John Ewart as Albert
Tom Farley
John Godfrey
Brigid Lenihan as Girl
Nat Levison
Richard Meikle as Gidney
Joseph Szabo
Carole Taylor
Lou Vernon

Release

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "a brilliant bit of production, and one of the best contemporary dramas the Sydney studios of the A.B.C. has done yet. "^[2]

References

↑ "Phone Call is Key to Drama", The Age;; December 14, 1961 p 27
↑ "TV Merry Go Round". Sydney Morning Herald. 12 November 1961. p. 90.

External links

A Night Out on IMDb

TV productions of Alan Burke
Dramas	A Fourth for Bridge (1957) A Rose Without a Thorn (1958) His Excellency (1958) The Skin of Our Teeth (1959) Misery Me (1959) Wuthering Heights (1959) The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day (1960) Venus Observed (1960) A Little South of Heaven (1961) The Merchant of Venice (1961) A Night Out (1961) The Taming of the Shrew (1962) My Three Angels (1962) The Young Victoria (1963) A Dead Secret (1963) The Tempest (1963) The Harp in the South (1964) Rusty Bugles (1965) Macbeth (1965) Dark Corridor (1965) The House (1966) The Prowler (1966) Redheap (1972) The Cousin from Fiji (1972) A Curate in Bohemia (1972) Dust or Polish? (1972) Halfway to Nowhere (1972) Essington (1974) Hamlet (1974) Ride on Stranger (1979) Coralie Lansdowne Says No (1980) A Toast to Melba (1980) Big Toys (1980) Departmental (1980) The Department (1980) Rusty Bugles (1981) A Hard God (1981) Going Home (1981) Jonah (1982) The Dean Case (1983) The Amorous Dentist (1983) A Halo for Athuan (1984) Kindred Spirits (1984) The Schippan Mystery (1984) Who Killed Hannah Jane? (1984) Rooted (1985) In This Corner (1986) After Marcuse (1988) The Alien Years (1988) Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (1993) Giant Mine (1996)
Operas	Prima Donna (1959) Rita (1959) Cavalleria rusticana (1959) The Marriage of Figaro (1960) The Medium (1960) The Abduction from the Seraglio (1961) La Boheme (1961) Don Pasquale (1962)
TV Series	Be Our Guest (1966) Bellbird (1966-68) Vega 4 (1968) Dynasty (1971) Lane End (1972) Behind the Legend (1972) The Seven Ages of Man (1976) The Oracle (1979)
Ballet	The Tell-Tale Heart (1961)
Musicals	Pardon Miss Westcott (1959) (writer only) Lola Montez (1962) The Sentimental Bloke (1976)

Harold Pinter
Plays	The Room (1957) The Birthday Party (1957) The Dumb Waiter (1957) A Slight Ache (1958) The Hothouse (1958) The Caretaker (1959) A Night Out (1959) Night School (1960) The Dwarfs (1960) The Collection (1961) The Lover (1962) Tea Party (1964) The Homecoming (1964) The Basement (1966) Landscape (1967) Silence (1968) Old Times (1970) Monologue (1972) No Man's Land (1974) Betrayal (1978) Family Voices (1980) A Kind of Alaska (1982) Victoria Station (1982) One for the Road (1984) Mountain Language (1988) The New World Order (1991) Party Time (1991) Moonlight (1993) Ashes to Ashes (1996) Celebration (1999) Remembrance of Things Past (2000)
Dramatic sketches	The Black and White (1959) Trouble in the Works (1959) Last to Go (1959) Request Stop (1959) Special Offer (1959) That's Your Trouble (1959) That's All (1959) Interview (1959) Applicant (1959) Dialogue for Three (1959) Umbrellas (1960) Night (1969) Precisely (1983) "God's District" (1997) Press Conference (2002) Apart From That (2006)
Screenplays	The Caretaker (1963) The Servant (1963) The Pumpkin Eater (1963) The Quiller Memorandum (1965) Accident (1966) The Birthday Party (1968) The Go-Between (1970) The Homecoming (1969) Langrishe, Go Down (1970) The Proust Screenplay (1972) The Last Tycoon (1974) The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) Betrayal (1982, 1983) Victory (1982) Turtle Diary (1984) Reunion (1989) The Heat of the Day (1988) The Comfort of Strangers (1989) Party Time (1992) The Trial (1993) The Dreaming Child (1997) The Tragedy of King Lear (2000) Sleuth (2007)
Related articles	Works Bibliography Characteristics Honours and awards Relationship with academia The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library Harold Pinter and politics Art, Truth and Politics Pinter's People

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