| Twilight of a Hero | |
| Format: | drama play |
| Runtime: | 75 mins |
| Start Time: | 8pm |
| End Time: | 9.15pm |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Home Station: | 3LO |
| Syndicates: | ABC |
| First Aired: | 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]
The love King David had for his son Absolom.