Two Gentlemen of Soho

Summary: BBC Television production of A. P. Herbert’s Two Gentlemen of Soho.
Theatre play: Two Gentlemen of Soho by A. P. Herbert [more information]
Play synopsis: A one-act play in verse. The scene is The Colts and Fillies, a night club in Soho. The theme is modern, but clothed in Shakespearean language.
Production history: Published in 1927 and performed at least as early as then in 1927 (at the Liverpool Playhouse: see http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/herbert-a-p.html#88075, accessed 20 November 2012) and in 1930 (by the Questors at the Park Theatre, Hanwell: see http://archive.questors.org.uk/prods/1930/soho/page.html, accessed 20 Novemebr 2012).
Date of transmission: Thursday 7 October 1937
Time: 3.45pm (15 mins)
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Stephen Thomas

Playwright

A. P. Herbert

Conductor

Hyam Greenbaum (BBC Television Orchestra)

Orchestra Directed by

Boris Pecker

Cast

Later transmissions: Broadcast again at 9.45pm on Saturday 9 October 1937, and again at 3.30pm on Wednesday 26 January 1938 with John Abbott, Robert Atkins, Roy Graham, Nadine March, Nicholas Phipps, Geoffrey Wincott and Margaret Yarde credit in Radio Times.
Extant status: No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags: verse drama

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