She Stoops to Conquer, Part 1

Summary: 1960 Associated-Rediffusion production of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer for ITV schools, presented in three parts. This part was no. 2 in the Played Upon a Stage series.
Theatre play: She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night by Oliver Goldsmith [more information]
Play synopsis: In this comedy the wealthy countryman Mr Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet the complete opposite around women of lower-class, thus Kate ‘stoops to conquer’ by posing as a maid, hoping to put Marlow at his ease; he falls for her and they become engaged. The main sub-plot is the secret romance between Miss Constance Neville, another young woman who lives with the Hardcastles, and Marlow’s friend George Hastings, who also become engaged.
Production history: First performed in London in 1773.
Date of transmission: Wednesday 11 May 1960
Time: 3.18-3.50pm
Series: Schools
Channel: ITV
Production company: Associated-Rediffusion (1955-1964)

Director

Roger Jenkins

Playwright

Oliver Goldsmith

Designer

John Clements (1910-1988)

Education Officer

Maureen Price

Cast

Later transmissions: Repeated on Friday 13 May 1960 at 3.18-3.50pm. Part 1 seems to have been broadcast as a single entity under the Out of School: Drama banner (for adults), on 23 December 1963 (2.35-3.00pm).
Play tags: 18th-century setting; class issues / differences; comedy
Programme context tags: schools television programming

Title: She Stoops to Conquer (1960; rep. 1964) (Archive file)
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Reference: Special Collections, Associated-Rediffusion Television papers
Notes: File includes: booklet for schools, 1964 repeat; undated leaflets for, possibly, the earlier transmissions; contracts; internal memo.

Title: TV Times, 6 May 1960 (Magazine)
Linking notes: article, p. 5; listing, p. 30, with image of Downs and Newell in rehearsal

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