St Patrick’s Day

Summary

1938 BBC studio production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s farce St Patrick’s Day.

Theatre play

St Patrick’s Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) [more information]

Play synopsis

This farce ‘exists very much in the mode of The Rivals and endeavors to amuse audiences with its affable, if preposterous, characters’ (source: http://www.enotes.com/topics/richard-brinsley-sheridan/critical-essays/sheridan-richard-brinsley).

Production history

Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote the play for a benefit performance in May 1775 given for the actor Lawrence Clinch, who had played Sir Lucius O’Trigger in the successful premiere of Sheridan’s The Rivals.

Date of transmission

Friday 2 December 1938

Time

3.30-4.00pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Denis Johnston (1901-1984)

Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

Cast

Sonia Beryl
Basil Cunard
Cyril Cusack
Margot Davies
Ian Dawson
Kathleen Edwards
Peter Henschel
Russell Howarth
Stuart Latham
Rupert Siddons
Charles Victor

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 10.00pm on Monday 5 December 1938.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

18th-century setting; farce; military / army / navy / air-force

Print sources

Title

Broadcasting: The Vision of Isiah (Newspaper listing)

Reference

The Times, 2 December 1938, p. 12

Title

Radio Times, 25 November 1938 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 16