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Burst of Summer (1960)

Burst of Summer poster
Directed by
William Sterling
Country
Australia
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A playwright adapts her award-winning stage play for television. It follows characters in a small Australian town during a hot summer.

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What happens

Burst of Summer is a 1959 play by Oriel Gray. It won the 1959 J. C. Williamson's Little Theatre Guild Award, and was later adapted for radio and TV. It was Gray's last produced play. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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