Twilight of a Hero
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| Genre | drama play |
|---|---|
| Running time | 75 mins (8:00 pm – 9:15 pm) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | 3LO |
| Syndicates | ABC |
| Written by | Patricia Hooker |
| Original release | 13 November 1962 |
Twilight of a Hero was a 1962 Australian radio play by Patricia Hooker. It was her first radio play.[1]
The play was the ABC's entry into the Italia Prize and was performed on the BBC. The BBC production was heard in the US and Canada.[2]
The Age said it was "difficult stuff to tackle but it worked out quite well".[3]
The play was produced again in 1963, 1966, 1970 and 1974.[4]
Leslie Rees said in this and other Hooker plays, Concord of Sweet Sounds and Season in Hell, "the main preoccupation of the author was a vision of the torment of life—the study of pride, possessive love, ambition, jealousy, intense personal worship, acting between two or more emotion-torn human beings of special accomplishment, with keen analysis of the motives involved."[5]