Spring at Murino

Summary

1951 BBC studio production of Constance Cox’s drama, Spring at Murino, deriving from Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. The television production was based on the staging by John Fernald at the Arts Theatre Club.

Theatre play

Spring at Murino by Constance Cox (1912-1998) [more information]

Play synopsis

A comedy based on Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. The action takes place in a room at Murino, the country house of Nicholai Kirsanov, about thirty miles from St Petersburg, in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Production history

Produced at the Arts Theatre Club in 1951.

Date of transmission

Tuesday 27 March 1951

Time

8.20-10.10pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Kenneth Milne Buckley

Theatre Director

John Fernald

Playwright

Constance Cox (1912-1998)

Original Book by

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)

Cast

David Bird	Nicolai Kirsanov
Derek Farr	Eugene Bazarov
Arthur Hambling	Prokovitch
Jenny [Jeannie?] Laird	Thenichka
Clive Morton	Paul Kirsanov
Nicholas Parsons	Arkady
Muriel Pavlow	Katia
Margaret Rawlings (1906-1996)	Anna Sergievna

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

adaptation of novel; comedy; Russia (Soviet Union etc), as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 23 March 1951 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 45 and article by Lionel Hale, p. 44