Cats Creep at Night

Cats Creep at Night is a 1930 Australia radio play by Max Afford.^[1]

It was Afford's first radio play, written while he was still a journalist, and it earned him one guinea.^[2] He later said it was "an hour of everything in the blood and thunder line — a haunted house, a thunderstorm, car smashes, a madman."^[3]

Afford directed it himself for Adelaide radio station 5CL.^[4] The play was very popular and was repeated by popular demand.^[5] Afford later said "although I blush now to think of it, it was repeated three times after the original performance."^[6]

Afford followed it with another similar play, Blackmail.^[7]

References

1. "Broadcasting". The Advertiser. South Australia. 21 October 1930. p. 11. Retrieved 28 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "Playwright on Visit". Barrier Miner. Vol. LXVI, no. 17, 456. New South Wales, Australia. 16 May 1953. p. 12. Retrieved 28 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
3. "Radio Roundabout". The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 40, no. 2, 030. South Australia. 28 April 1951. p. 26. Retrieved 28 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "Features From 5CL". The Register News-pictorial. Vol. XCV, no. 27, 864. South Australia. 4 December 1930. p. 8. Retrieved 28 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
5. "Features From 5CL". The Register News-pictorial. Vol. XCV, no. 27, 858. South Australia. 27 November 1930. p. 8. Retrieved 28 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
6. "Australia on the Air", ABC Weekly, 3 (2), 11 January 1941, nla.obj-1309858540, retrieved 28 December 2023
7. ""Blackmail" From 5CL". The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 19, no. 977. South Australia. 14 February 1931. p. 3. Retrieved 28 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.