Spring 1600
- Summary
- 1949 live studio production of Emlyn Williams’ Spring 1600, a romantic comedy about Shakespeare’s acting troupe. Jessice Spencer (Ann Byrd) and Andrew Cruickshank (Richard Burbage) had recently taken these roles in a production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.
- Theatre play
- Spring 1600 by Emlyn Williams (1905-1987) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 26 June 1949
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Douglas Allen
- Playwright
- Emlyn Williams (1905-1987)
- Music
- Herbert Menges
- Conductor
- Herbert Menges
- Sets / Settings
- Stephen Bundy
- Cast
Margery Bryce Mistress Byrd / Another visitor Ysanne Churchman Grizzy Frost Andrew Cruickshank Richard Burbage Rupert Davies Henry Condell Roy Dean Tom Day John Fitzgerald Kit Cooper Winifred Hill Mother Harelip Barry MacGregor Salathiel Pavy Miles Manderson George Pearce Joan Maude Lady Coperario Cameron Miller Ned Pope Edna Morris Winifred Burbage Michael Nightingale Robert Harry Quashie Nebuchadnezzar Clive Ryder Master John Kynaston Jessica Spencer Ann Byrd Barry Steele Ben Cook John Vere Augustin Phillips Tom Webster Jeremy Victor Woolf Will Kempe
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.30pm on Thursday 30 June 1949.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 17th-century setting; comedy; theatre or acting, as theme
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 24 June 1949 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 30; article by Lionel Hale, ‘Emlyn Williams’ Spring 1600’, p. 29
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