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Catsplay (1978 film)
Catsplay is a Canadian drama television film, which was broadcast by CBC Television in 1978.[1] An adaptation of the novel Catsplay (Macskajáték) by István Örkény, the film was directed by Stephen Katz and written by Timothy Findley.[2] The film stars Helen Burns as Bela Orban, a woman living in Budapest, Hungary, who is having a love affair with an opera singer (Jan Rubeš); meanwhile, her sister Giza (Doris Petrie) is living a wealthier but sterile life on the other side of the Iron Curtain in Germany.[3] The cast also includes Frances Hyland, Moya Fenwick, Angela Fusco and Les Carlson.[4] Burns also starred in stage productions of Catsplay, directed by Lynne Meadow and translated by Clara Gyorgyey,[5] for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play in 1978. The film was broadcast by the CBC in March 1978 as an episode of its anthology series Front Row Centre.[4] Burns won the Earle Grey Award for best television actor,[6] and Fenwick was nominated for best supporting television actor,[7] at the 8th ACTRA Awards in 1979. References
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