Swamp Creatures

Swamp Creatures
Written by	Alan Seymour
Date premiered	1 November 1957
Place premiered	Canberra
Original language	English

Swamp Creatures
Directed by	Raymond Menmuir
Written by	Alan Seymour
Based on	play by Alan Seymour
Distributed by	ABC
Release date	9 July 1960
Running time	75 mins
Country	Australia
Language	English

Swamp Creatures was a play by the Australian author Alan Seymour. He wrote it for radio, stage and TV. It was Seymour's first produced play.

The play was written in 1955–56. In 1956 it was the runner-up in a play competition held by the Journalists' Club and judged by the Playwrights' Advisory Board. In 1957 it was one of the twenty-five finalists in the play competition held by the London Observer.

It was first performed by the Canberra Repertory Society in 1957.

The play was based on a true story about an old woman who lived near a swamp and disappeared.

The play was adapted for radio by the ABC in 1958.

It was filmed for TV by the ABC in 1960. It was repeated in 1962

Floor assistant David Twiby recalled that during the making of the show, the smoke machine caused a stage hand to nearly die during the broadcast.

The Sydney Morning Herald critic called it "one of the finest drama efforts I have seen done here."

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