The Winds of Green Monday

The Winds of Green Monday was a 1965 Australian television play by Michael Noonan. It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre. It starred Terry Norris and was directed by Oscar Whitbread.

Plot
A crew deserts a ship to find their fortune in the 1850s goldfields and the captain must get them back.

Cast
Keith Lee as Scottish captain McKendrick
Terry Norris
Jennifer Wright as music hall singer
Martin Magee

Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald praised the performances of Lee and Wright as "professional" but complained about the "stiffness of the dialogue" and said "the direction of the crowds with their rhubarb-rhubarb voices and their tinned and infuriatingly phony laughter drove us for solace across the dial."

British version
The play was adapted for British TV in 1965 starring Chips Rafferty.

References

External links
The Winds of Green Monday Australian Version at IMDb
The Winds of Green Monday at Austlit

Category:Australian television plays
Category:1965 television plays
Category:Fiction set in the 1850s
Category:Australian films