[4] Christopher Fry's play only featured a cast of three so was considered ideal for television production; the ABC filmed it again in 1966.
[5] A grieving widow in Ancient Greece gradually finds the attractions of a young soldier outweighs her determination to join her husband in the underworld.
[5] O'Loughlin said "TV has a lot of problems that don't exist either on the stage or in radio.
You can’t go in for many long shots of crowd scenes, for instance, because the figures look too small to come to life.
"[5] Audrey Teesdale and Dinah Shearing had acted in a production of the play on stage several years previously at the Mercury Theatre.