Othello [scene]
- Summary
- 1950 BBC presentation of the final scene of Othello performed live and in French by a company from the Comédie Francaise in the studio at Lime Grove. The theatre direction was by René Mathis and the adaptation by Georges Neveux. The broadcast marked the State Visit to Britain of the President of the French Republic.
- Theatre play
- Othello by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 8 March 1950
- Time
- 8.30-9.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
- Theatre company
- Comédie Francaise
Credits
- Producer
- Eric Fawcett
- Theatre Producer
- Jean Meyer
- Theatre Director
- René Mathis
- Playwright
- William Shakespeare
- Adapted for Television by
- Eric Fawcett
- Translator
- Georges Neveux (1900-1982) (translated into French)
- Music
- Louis Beydts
- Conductor
- Eric Robinson
- Sets / Settings
- James Bould
- Decor
- A. M. Cassandre (stage setting)
- Costumes
- A. M. Cassandre
- Introduced by
- Michel St Denis
- Cast
Jean Chevrier Cassio Aimé Clariond Othello Jean Debucourt Iago Louis Eymond Montano Renée Faure Desdemona Line Noro Emilia Francois Vibert Ludovico
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- class issues / differences; race relations; tragedy
Print sources
- Title
- Entente cordiale: a French Othello (BBC, 1950) (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/entente-cordiale-a-french-othello-bbc-1950, published 4 January 2012
- Title
- Radio Times, 3 March 1950 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 47; illustrated article by Carl Wildman, ‘France’s National Theatre’, p. 45
- Title
- Television: Mr Dimbleby’s Cough (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Harold Hobson (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 23 March 1950, p. 534
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