The End of the Beginning
- Summary
- 1947 BBC live studio production of Sean O’Casey’s one-art farce The End of the Beginning.
- Theatre play
- The End of the Beginning by Seán O’Casey (1880-1964) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 26 October 1947
- Time
- 9.25-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Kenneth Milne Buckley
- Playwright
- Seán O’Casey (1880-1964)
- Cast
Harry Fine Darry Berrill Robert [Bob] Mooney Barry Derrill Sally Travers Lizzie Berrill
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Tuesday 28 October 1947.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; farce; gender roles; Irish drama; Republic of Ireland, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 24 October 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- brief article, p. 29; listing, p. 31
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