Pyramus and Thisbe
- Summary
- BBC Television production of the Pyramus and Thisbe scene from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
- Theatre play
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Friday 9 July 1937
- Time
- 9.01pm (26 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Jan Bussell
- Playwright
- William Shakespeare
- Cast
Erik Chitty (1907-1977) One of the Performers Don Gemmell Flute Herbert Lees One of the Performers Charles Lefeaux Quince J. Hubert Leslie One of the Performers John Rudling Theseus Jillian Sandilands Hippolyta Kenneth Villiers Lysander and Demetrius Wilfred Walter Bottom
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- Broadcast again on Thursday 15 July 1937 at 3.00pm, on Friday 23 July 1937 at 3.00pm, on Friday 28 January 1938 at 9.20pm and on Tuesday 1 February 1938 at 3.35pm.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- children’s drama; Elizabethan drama; Greece, as theme or setting; marriage; supernatural; theatre or acting, as theme
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Television Programme Records: vol. 1, 1937-38 (Book)
- Reference
- London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1938
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 56
- Title
- Radio Times, 2 July 1937 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 4
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