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A Florentine Tragedy

Summary
1964 BBC production of A Florentine Tragedy by Oscar Wilde.
Theatre play
A Florentine Tragedy by Oscar Wilde [more information]
Date of transmission
Wednesday 11 March 1964
Time
9.25-10.20pm
Series
Festival
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Director
Herbert Wise
Producer
Peter Luke
Playwright
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Thomas Sturge Moore (1870-1944) (wrote the opening scene for this unfinished play)
Adapted for Television by
Robert Shaw
Musician
Julian Bream (played the lute, for which he also arranged the music)
Sets / Settings
Marilyn Taylor
Costume Designer
Olive Harris
Make-up Supervisor
Lilias Munro
Fight Arranger
William Hobbs
Story Editor
Harry Moore
Cast
Ann BeachMaria
Alex DavionGuido Bardi
Robert ShawSimone
Mary UreBianca

Additional details

Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
16th-century setting; Italy, as theme or setting; melodrama

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 5 March 1964 (Magazine)
Linking notes
image or Mary Ure in costume on p. 2; illustrated article on p. 37; listing, with photograph, p. 39

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