The Breadwinner

Summary: 1982 BBC production of The Breadwinner by W. Somerset Maugham.
Theatre play: The Breadwinner by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) [more information]
Play synopsis: Comedy. ‘Charles Battle has been "hammered" in the London Stock Exchange, to the point where he may be bankrupted. Maugham keeps his audience ignorant of the disaster facing Charles for much of the play, at which point we learn what the effect would be on his wife and teenage son and daughter. Charles’ good friend Alfred Granger and his wife and son and daughter, all of whom are a similar age to their Battle counterparts, fill the scenes in the Battles’ house at Golders Green in London’. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bread-Winner_(play); accessed 12 February 2014.)
Production history: First produced at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, in September 1930.
Date of transmission: Saturday 17 July 1982
Time: 10.00-11.00pm
Channel: ITV
Production company: Yorkshire Television (1968-)
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