Hotel Torpe

Summary

1967 BBC production of Hotel Torpe by François Billetdoux.

Theatre play

Hotel Torpe [Chez Torpe] by François Billetdoux (1927-1991) [more information]

Play synopsis

Ursula Torpe runs a hotel in central Europe where a number of inexplicable suicides have taken place in recent months. A police Inspector arrives to investigate the latest death.

Production history

Details of premiere yet to be located.

Date of transmission

Monday 13 March 1967

Series

Theatre 625

Channel

BBC2

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Roderick Graham

Producer

Michael Bakewell

Playwright

François Billetdoux (1927-1991)

Translator

Peter Meyer

Designer

Richard Wilmot

Cast

Yemi Ajibade	Tsilla Mamadou
Judith Arthy	Opportune
Joby Blanshard	Gustav
Hamilton Dyce	Klaus von Karadine
Dorothy Edwards	Berta Kauffmann
Ronald Hines	Hans Meyer
Natalie Kent	Ada
Siobhan McKenna	Ursula Maria Torpe
Peter Pratt	Stephan Pocoresco
Elizabeth Proud	Greta Minerowski
Derek Seaton	Conrad
John Slater	Inspector Karl Topfer
Philip Voss	Piotr Ollendorf

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 9 March 1967 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article with photograph, p. 22; listing, p. 25