Musical Chairs

Summary

1960 BBC production of Musical Chairs by Ronald Mackenzie, the last in the Twentieth Century Theatre series.

Theatre play

Musical Chairs by Ronald Mackenzie [more information]

Play synopsis

This play deals with the emotional conflicts within the Schindler family, and it is set in and around the home of Wilhelm Schindler, who owns an oil well in Galicia, Poland. The years is 1931.

Production history

Performed at the Arts Theatre, London in 1931.

Date of transmission

Sunday 26 June 1960

Time

8.10-9.35pm

Series

Twentieth Century Theatre

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Gerard Glaister

Playwright

Ronald Mackenzie

Musician

Alfred Franks (piano)

Designer

Barry Learoyd

Cast

Kenneth Haigh	Joseph Schindler
Cecil Linder	Samuel Plagett
Andrée Melly	Mary Preston
André Morell	Wilhelm Schindler
Donald Pickering	Geoffrey Preston
Barbara Shelley	Irene Baumer
Marian Spencer	Mrs Schindler
Ingeborg Wells	Anna

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

oil industry; Poland, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 24 June 1960 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing on p. 13