Ice Age

Summary

1978 BBC production of Ice Age by by Tankred Dorst.

Theatre play

Ice Age [Eiszeit] by Tankred Dorst (1925-) [more information]

Play synopsis

A conversation between Knut Hamsun, a Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning author who was an unrepentant admirer of Nazi Germany, in old age and a young German probing his collaboration with the Nazis.

Production history

Dated to 1973.

Date of transmission

Wednesday 17 May 1978

Time

9.40-11.40pm

Series

Play of the Week

Channel

BBC2

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

David Jones

Producer

James [Jimmy] Cellan Jones

Lighting

John Summers

Playwright

Tankred Dorst (1925-)

Translator

Neville Plaice

Translator

Stephen Plaice

Designer

Chris Pemsel

Sound

John Holmes

Script Editor

Stuart Griffiths

Cast

Charles Bentley	Blind Man
Anne Blake	Elegant Lady
Janet Brandes	Sister of Lady in Wheelchair
George Cormack	Man with Camera
David de Keyser	Axel Reich
Aimée Delamain	Old Spinster
Patrick Godfrey	Professor Jenssen
Gordon Gostelow	Kristian
Mike Gwilym	Oswald
Ruby Head	Doctor’s Widow
Robert Henderson	Berend
John Herrington	Man with Monkey Mask
Celia Imrie	Housemaid
Boris Isarov	Latvian Cook
Clifford Mollison	Man with Compass
Judith Nelmes	Lady in Wheelchair
Ken Parry	Fat Man
Arnold Peters	Savings Bank Manager
Anthony Quayle	The Old Man
Joyce Redman	Vera
Hubert Rees	Pastor Holm
Llewellyn Rees	The Colonel
Phillada Sewell	Major’s Widow
Will Stampe	Gardener
Michael Williams	Paul

Additional details

Play tags

German drama; Germany, as theme or setting; Nazism; poetry and literature, as theme

Audiovisual sources

Title

Ice Age (BBC, 1978)

Archive

BBC Information and Archives [more information]

Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 11 May 1978 (Magazine)

Linking notes

short article, p. 3; listing, with image, p. 47