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A Night Out (1961)

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Australia
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How it feels

A young man goes out for a night on the town. He gets into a series of awkward and tense encounters with strangers.

theatricalconversationalabsurdistunderstateddrollclaustrophobicstageduncomfortable

What happens

A Night Out is a 1961 Australian television play. It was based on A Night Out by Harold Pinter. It starred John Ewart and Richard Meikle. The play had previously been filmed in England in 1960 for Armchair Theater. It was one of three plays the BBC commissioned from Pinter. The BBC also did the play for radio a version which had been broadcast in Australia by the ABC. The TV production was shot in Sydney. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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