Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations

Summary

Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations, the only children’s play written by Alan Ayckbourn.

Theatre play

Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations by Alan Ayckbourn [more information]

Play synopsis

Commissioned as a play for schoolchildren of 11-12 years old, it focuses on a boy whose ‘incredible illucinations’ come to life as he sits with his parents in a doctor’s waiting room.

Production history

Premiere: 17 September 1971, Unicorn Theatre For Children, London.

Date of transmission

Wednesday 11 November 1987

Time

5.10-5.35pm

Series

Children’s BBC

Channel

BBC1

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Colin Cant

Playwright

Alan Ayckbourn

Adapted for Television by

Chris Barlas

Designer

Bill Noble

Executive Producer

Paul Stone

Cast

Tim Barker	Dad
Marie Collett	Intellectual Lady
Anthony Flynn	Ernie
John Forgeham	German Officer
Ian Harvey	Attendant
Melanie Kilburn	Mum
John Landry	Doctor
Mary Lincoln	Librarian
Ian Mackenzie	Tramp

Additional details

Play tags

children’s drama

Audiovisual sources

Title

Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations (BBC, 1987)

Archive

BBC Information and Archives [more information]

Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title

Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations: Significant Productions (Website)

Reference

http://ernies.alanayckbourn.net/page16/index.html

Title

Radio Times, 5 November 1987 (Magazine)

Linking notes

articles, pp. 4 and 102; listing, p. 65