L’Avare
- Summary
- Live BBC studio production of Molière’s comedy L’Avare in Lady Gregory’s version (titled The Miser); on this occasion the BBC used the French title of the play.
- Theatre play
- The Miser [L’Avare] by Molière (bap. 1622-1673) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 21 March 1939
- Time
- 9.20-10.35pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Fred O’Donovan (1889-1952)
- Playwright
- Molière (bap. 1622-1673)
- Adaptor of Script
- [Lady] Augusta Gregory (1852-1932)
- Cast
Edgar K. Bruce Anselme Bryan Coleman Cléante Mark Daly Jacques Dorothy Hyson Marian Oliver Johnson Notary Marjorie Mars Elise James Mason Valere Molly May Dame Claude Henry Oscar (1891-1969) Harpagon Mardale Owen Servant to Harpagon Christopher Rowan Robinson Servant to Harpagon John Salew La Fleche Rupert Siddons Simon Olive Walter Frosine
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Notes
- The presentation coincided with the state visit of the President of the French Republic and Mme Lebrun, which was covered by an outside broadcast unit that afternoon.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; French drama
Print sources
- Title
- Broadcasting: State Visit to England (Newspaper listing)
- Reference
- The Times, 21 March 1939, p. 14
- Title
- Radio Times, 17 March 1939 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 18
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