Catsplay_(1978_film)

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Catsplay (1978 film)

Canadian TV series or program

Catsplay is a Canadian drama television film, which was broadcast by CBC Television in 1978.[1] An adaptation of the novel Catsplay (Macskajáték) by István Örkény, the film was directed by Stephen Katz and written by Timothy Findley.[2]

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The film stars Helen Burns as Bela Orban, a woman living in Budapest, Hungary, who is having a love affair with an opera singer (Jan Rubeš); meanwhile, her sister Giza (Doris Petrie) is living a wealthier but sterile life on the other side of the Iron Curtain in Germany.[3]

The cast also includes Frances Hyland, Moya Fenwick, Angela Fusco and Les Carlson.[4]

Burns also starred in stage productions of Catsplay, directed by Lynne Meadow and translated by Clara Gyorgyey,[5] for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play in 1978.

The film was broadcast by the CBC in March 1978 as an episode of its anthology series Front Row Centre.[4]

Burns won the Earle Grey Award for best television actor,[6] and Fenwick was nominated for best supporting television actor,[7] at the 8th ACTRA Awards in 1979.

References

  1. [1]
    Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 39.
  2. [2]
    "Prix Anik winner Katz directs Catsplay for CBC". Calgary Albertan, June 10, 1977.
  3. [3]
    "Catsplay features Canadian actresses". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, February 25, 1978.
  4. [4]
    Blaik Kirby, "Catsplay isn't simple". The Globe and Mail, February 22, 1978.
  5. [5]
    Allan Wallach, "Theatre Club's 'Catsplay'". Newsday, April 20, 1978.
  6. [6]
    "ACTRA awards list". Regina Leader-Post, April 5, 1979.
  7. [7]
    "Front-runners picked for ACTRA Awards". Montreal Star, March 24, 1979.
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