East Lynne

Summary: 1976 BBC production of of East Lynne by Ellen Wood, ‘from the stage of the Famous City Varieties theatre, Leeds, by arrangement with Stanley and Michael Joseph [...] Among the invited audience will be well-known sporting and theatrical personalities’ (Radio Times, 16 December 1976, p. 37).
Theatre play: East Lynne by Ellen ['Mrs Henry’] Wood (1814-1887) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working lawyer-husband and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor. After he deserts her, and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Isabel disguises herself and takes the position of governess in the household of her former husband and his new wife’ (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Lynne).
Production history: Wood’s novel East Lynne ‘has been adapted for the stage many times; the play was so popular that stock companies put on a performance whenever they needed guaranteed revenue. The play was staged so often that critic Sally Mitchell estimates some version was seen by audiences in either England or North America every week for over forty years. The novel was first staged on 26 January 1863 in Brooklyn’ (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Lynne).
Date of transmission: Tuesday 21 December 1976
Time: 10.10-11.10pm
Channel: BBC1
Production company: BBC

Director

Barney Coleman

Producer

Pieter Rogers

Theatre Director

Philip Grout

Playwright

Ellen ['Mrs Henry’] Wood (1814-1887)

Adaptor of Script

Patrick Bond

Designer

Daphne Shortman

Costumes

John Peacock

Make-up

Shirley Channing-Williams

Cast

Play tags: 19th-century setting; adaptation of novel; American drama; melodrama

Title: East Lynne (BBC, 1976)
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