Playboy of the West Indies

Summary
1985 BBC production of Mustapha Matura’s Playboy of the West Indies (an adaptation of Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World).
Theatre play
Playboy of the West Indies by Mustapha Matura [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 13 October 1985
Time
8.35-10.10pm
Series
Theatre Night
Channel
BBC2
Production company
BBC

Credits

Director
Nicholas Kent
Producer
Alan Shallcross
Lighting
Howard King
Playwright
Mustapha Matura
Writer
J. M. Synge (1871-1909) (Matura’s play adapts Synge’s original work)
Designer
Chris Pemsel
Introduced by
Mustapha Matura
Cast
Ruddi L. DavisPepe
Jacqueline de PezaIvy
Tommy EytlePhil Blakeney
Jim FindleyKen Wilson
Mona HammondMama Benin
Ram John HolderMacaulay
Stefan KaliphaStanley
Joan-Ann MaynardPeggy
Joy RichardsonAlice
Frank SinguineauJimmy
Rudolph WalkerMikey

Additional details

Play tags
Caribbean, as theme or setting; Irish drama

Audiovisual sources

Title
Playboy of the West Indies (BBC, 1985)
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
Lean Times (Newspaper review)
Author/creator
Hugh Herbert (Reviewer)
Reference
The Guardian, 14 October 1985, p. 13
Title
Radio Times, 10 October 1985 (Magazine)
Linking notes
long article, with photographs, p. 16; listing, p. 33

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