Learning on ScreenA Month in the Country
- Summary
- John Clements’ production of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country for Associated-Rediffusion was the first stage play produced for ITV; it was shown just five days after the start of the new service in 1955.
- Theatre play
- A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 27 September 1955
- Time
- 8.30pm (80 mins)
- Series
- International Theatre
- Channel
- ITV
- Production company
- Associated-Rediffusion (1955-1964)
Credits
- Director
- Robert Hamer
- Producer
- John Clements (1910-1988)
- Director of Photography
- William J. Harvey (credited here as James W. Harvey)
- Playwright
- Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
- Adaptor of Script
- Alwyne Whatsley
- Translator
- Constance Garnett
- Designer
- Fred Pusey
- Cast
John Bailey Kolya Michael Gough Rakitin Laurence Harvey Belyaev Geoffrey Keen Islayev Margaret Leighton Natalya Miles Malleson (1889-1969) Shipgelsky Audrey Nicholson Maid Charles Lloyd Pack Bolshintsov Susan Richmond Anna Frederick Schiller Schaaf Zena Walker Vera
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- 30 July 1958 (source: Kaleidoscope, p. 2693).
- Notes
- The transmission included two advertisement breaks which were announced with captions bearing the word ‘Interval’.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; comedy; Russian drama
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- A Month in the Country (ITV, 1955)
- Archive
- BFI Research Viewing Service [more information]
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Print sources
- Title
- A Month in the Country, 1955 (Archive file)
- Archive
- BFI Reuben Library [more information]
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- Reference
- Special Collections, Associated-Rediffusion Television papers, file reference ART/935
- Notes
- This file contains internal documentation such as contracts and correspondence.
- Title
- An ITV Triumph: Turgenev’s A Month in the Country (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Bernard Levin (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 28 September 1955, p. 5
- Title
- In the Basket (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Listener, 6 October 1955, p. 569
- Title
- International Theatre: A Month in the Country (John Clements / A-R for ITV, 1955) (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/international-theatre-a-month-in-the-country-john-clements-a-r-for-itv-1955, published 14 October 2011
- Title
- Television drama: ‘Live’ or Filmed Beforehand? The Implications of ‘Immediacy’ (Newspaper article)
- Reference
- The Times, 8 November 1955, p. 3
- Title
- Turgenev on I.T.A. (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 28 September 1955, p. 3
- Title
- TV Times, 20 September 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 29
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