Waste

Summary: 1977 BBC production of the 1926 version of Waste by Harley Granville-Barker.
Theatre play: Waste by Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'The plot centres around ambitious independent politician Henry Trebell, his plans for a bill to disestablish the Church of England and his fall from grace and suicide after his affair with married woman Amy O’Connell, who dies after a botched abortion. The title may refer to the waste of his potential talents due to the scandal, the loss of the disestablishment bill and the termination of Amy’s pregnancy.' Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_%28play%29.
Production history: Waste ‘exists in two wholly different versions, from 1906 and 1927. The first version was refused a license by the Lord Chamberlain and had to be performed privately by the Stage Society in 1907; the second was finally staged in public at the Westminster Theatre in 1936.' Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_%28play%29.
Date of transmission: Sunday 4 December 1977
Series: Play of the Month
Channel: BBC1
Production company: BBC

Director

Don Taylor (1936-2003)

Producer

David Jones

Lighting

Peter Catlett

Playwright

Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946)

Designer

Sally Hulke

Sound

Brian Hiles

Script Editor

Stuart Griffiths

Cast

Origination: Recorded in studio
Vision original: Colour
Play tags: abortion; adultery / infidelity; Edwardian drama; politics; sexuality (and morality, politics etc)

Title: Waste (BBC, 1977)
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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

Title: The Edwardians: Play of the Month: Waste (BBC, 1977) (Blog article)
Author/creator: John Wyver (Author)
Reference: http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/the-edwardians-play-of-the-month-waste-bbc-1977, published 18 May 2014

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