Venus Observed is a play in blank verse by the English dramatist and poet Christopher Fry.
A new cast was headed by Rex Harrison as the Duke and his then wife Lilli Palmer as Perpetua.
[8][9] The cast included Walter Sullivan as Duke of Altair,[10] Rachel Lloyd as Perpetua, David Bluford as Edgar, Jacqueline Kott as Rosabel, Gwen Plumb as Jessie, Ria Sohier as Hilda, Hugh Stewart, John Dennis, John Gray and James Elliott.
[11] It was the Australian television debut of English actor Rachel Lloyd, although she had been in two episodes of Whiplash.
[13] The critic for The Sydney Morning Herald called Venus Observed a "a pleasantly competent piece of work... a production rich in setting, with exactly the right kind of faded spaciousness you would expect in such a household....