Antigone
- Summary
- 1949 BBC production of Antigone by Jean Anouilh.
- Theatre play
- Antigone by Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 18 October 1949
- Time
- 8.30-10.10pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Harold Clayton
- Playwright
- Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)
- Translator
- Lewis Galantière
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Margaret Boyd Nurse Hamilton Dyce Second Guard Thomas Heathcote First Guard Michael Hordern Chorus John Justin Haemon Evelyn Moore Eurydice Wendy Oliver Ismene David Peel Messenger Michael Redington Page George Relph Creon Norris Stayton Corporal of the Guard Irene Worth (1916-2002) Antigone
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Notes
- This television production folowed the London stage premiere eight months earlier.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- French drama; Greek drama; Greek myth; tragedy
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 14 October 1949 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- articles, pp. 44 and 45; listing, p. 46
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