This tele-play production utilized the two big studios (21 and 22) at ABC's Gore Hill premises - one for interiors and one for exteriors - plus the much smaller presentation studio 23 and tied up the telecine facilities for pre-filmed inserts. Thus the entire complex was turned over to this production.
There are just a handful of Australian theatrical feature films which are a filmed adaptation of a play by William Shakespeare. These movies are: Macbeth - La tragedia dell'ambizione (2006), Measure for Measure (2019), Twelfth Night (1986) and Romeo + Giulietta di William Shakespeare (1996). There are a few more Aussie versions made for television which include: Hamlet (1959), Hamlet (1974), Othello (1964), The Tempest (1963), Antony and Cleopatra (1959), The First 400 Years (1964), 'King Lear' aka 'King Lear for Schools' (1967), Romeo and Juliet (1967), The Merchant of Venice (1961), The Taming of the Shrew (1962), The Taming of the Shrew (1973) and The Life and Death of King Richard II (1960).