The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd

Summary

1995 BBC production of The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd by D. H. Lawrence, given in the Performance series.

Theatre play

The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd by D. H. Lawrence [more information]

Play synopsis

'Mrs Holyroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, apparently patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly neighbor makes romantic advances to her, she wishes her husband dead. Sooner than she hoped, her wish comes true - when her husband dies in a mining accident. When Charles Holroyd’s body is brought home from the mine, and his wife and mother must wash him and lay him out for his funeral, we see for the first time the other side of the relationship between Mr and Mrs. Holroyd - now, when it’s too late.' Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Widowing_of_Mrs_Holroyd.

Production history

Written in 1911 and published in 1914. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Widowing_of_Mrs_Holroyd.

Date of transmission

Saturday 14 October 1995

Series

Performance

Channel

BBC2

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Katie Mitchell

Producer

Simon Curtis

Lighting Director

Duncan Brown

Visual Effects Designer

Perry Brahan

Playwright

D. H. Lawrence

Designer

Jonathan Taylor

Properties Buyer

Gill Farr

Design Operatives Supervisor

Mike Hawkins

Costume Designer

Judy Pepperdine

Make-up Designer

Caroline Noble

Sound

Alan Machin

Sound

Paul Ostwind

Videotape Editor

Ian Williams

Fight Arranger

Terry King

Casting Advisor

Alison Chard

Dialect Coach

Joan Washington

Technical Director

John Vincent

Assistant Floor Manager

Theresa MacInnis

Production Assistant

Pauline Bullock-Webster

Production Manager

Daphne Phipps

Vision Mixer

Julie Mann

Programme Budget Assistant

Andrew Derbyshire

Studio Production Resources Manager

Alan Bright

Producer’s Secretary

Laura Gee

Script Editor

Michael Hastings

Associate Producer

Ruth Mayorcas

Cast

Gavin Abbott	Miner
Christopher Brand	Miner
Brenda Bruce	Grandmother
Stephen Dillane	Blackmore
Colin Firth	Charles Holroyd
Wayne Foskett	Rigley
Shane Fox	Jack
Melanie Hill	Laura
Peter Needham	Mine Manager
Lauren Richardson	Minnie
Mossie Smith	Clara
Zoë Wanamaker (1949-)	Mrs Holroyd

Additional details

Play tags

marriage; mines and mining

Audiovisual sources

Title

The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (BBC, 1995)

Archive

BBC Information and Archives [more information]

Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title

'Classics on TV: Edwardian Drama on the Small Screen’, a BFI Southbank season + Screen Plays symposium, May 2014 (Blog article)

Author/creator

John Wyver (Author)

Reference

http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/edwardian-drama-on-the-small-screen, published 24 March 2014