Moira Davidson News Today

The most successful moments of the Sydney Theatre Company production were those that unflinchingly dramatised the existential crisis facing humanity.

In the 1957 worldwide bestseller, Australia is – briefly – the last habitable place on earth, following a nuclear world war. One character asks, as they wait to die: ‘Why did all this happen to us?’

Nevil Shute’s classic novel On the Beach imagined a world wiped out by nuclear warfare, but playwright Tommy Murphy sees love.

Before television and video games conquered the world, horror and science fiction motion pictures were in their heyday. How much do you know about these films from the 1950s?