As You Like It
- Summary
- 1978 BBC production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. The production was preceded earlier in the evening by a 25-minute introductory programme presented by Brigid Brophy, and it featured a five-minute interval at 9.35pm.
- Theatre play
- As You Like It by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 17 December 1978
- Time
- 8.10-10.45pm
- Series
- BBC Television Shakespeare
- Channel
- BBC2
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Director
- Basil Coleman
- Producer
- Cedric Messina
- Playwright
- William Shakespeare
- Composer
- Geoffrey Burgon
- Composer
- William Walton (series title music)
- Conductor
- Geoffrey Burgon
- Designer
- Don Taylor (1936-2003)
- Costume Designer
- Robin Fraser-Paye
- Make-up Artist
- Kezia de Winne
- Choreographer
- Geraldine Stephenson
- Fight Arranger
- Terry Wright
- Script Editor
- Alan Smallcross
- Cast
Timothy Bateson Sir Oliver Martext Paul Bentall Jaques de Boys James Bolam Touchstone Tony Church Banished Duke Richard Easton Duke Frederick Carl Forgione Forest Lord Clive Francis Oliver Max Harvey Forest Lord Arthur Hewlett Adam Barry Holden Page Jeffrey Holland William Marilyn Le Conte Audrey Mike Lewin Palace Lord Tom McDonnell Amiens David Lloyd Meredith Corin Helen Mirren Rosalind John Moulder-Brown Hymen Richard Pasco (1926-) Jaques Paul Phoenix Page Victoria Plucknett Phebe Dave Prowse Charles John Quentin Le Beau Angharad Rees Celia Brian Stirner Orlando Chris Sullivan Dennis Peter Tullo Palace Lord Maynard Williams Silvius
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- As You Like It (BBC, 1978)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
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Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 14 December 1978 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, pp. 37 and 39
- Title
- Radio Times, 30 November 1978 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- long article on the BBC Television Shakespeare series, pp. 84-93
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