Dinner with the Family

Summary

1958 ATV production for ITV of Dinner with the Family by Jean Anouilh, broadcast three months after a successful London run of the play (TV Times, 10 October 1958).

Theatre play

Dinner with the Family [Le Rendez-vous de Senlis] by Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) [more information]

Play synopsis

'The story concerns the predicament of the disillusioned and dissolute Georges, who unaccountably falls in love with the innocent Isabelle - in the Louvre. To please her, Georges invents a respectable background for himself, and turns fabrication into fact by hiring a house, parents and a butler. But everything goes wrong.' (TV Times, 10 October 1958).

Production history

First produced: Théâtre de l’Atelier, 30 January 1941.

Date of transmission

Wednesday 15 October 1958

Time

9.15-10.45pm

Series

Play of the Week

Channel

ITV

Production company

Associated Television (ATV, 1955-1982)

Credits

Director

Peter Wood

Playwright

Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)

Translator

Edward Owen Marsh

Sets / Settings

Paul Mayo

Cast

Irene Browne	Mme de Montrachet
Denholm Elliott	Jacques
Ruth Gower	Madame Delachaume
Laurence Hardy	Delmonte
Arthur Hewlett	Monsieur Delachaume
Jack MacGowran	Emile
Mignon O’Doherty	Proprietress
Donald Sinden (1923-2014)	Georges
Judith Stott	Isabelle
Gwen[doline] Watford	Barbara

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

French drama

Print sources

Title

TV Times, 10 October 1958 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, p. 16; listing, p. 31