Days in the Trees

Summary: 1967 BBC presentation of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1966 production of (Whole) Days in the Trees by Marguerite Duras.
Theatre play: Whole Days in the Trees [Des journées entières dans les arbres] by Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) [more information]
Play synopsis: This play details a over-strong bond between frail, elderly mother and middle-aged, fading son. She arrives from the last of the French colonies. He is washed out, with his career as a gigolo having reached rock-bottom. When his mother meets his unloved mistress, her capacity for obsessive destruction is fired.
Production history: Whole Days in the Trees, taken from an early story, was performed by Madeleine Renaud in Paris in 1965 and Peggy Ashcroft in London in 1967, in the RSC production which the BBC televised in 1967.
Date of transmission: Wednesday 22 February 1967
Time: 9.45-11.10pm
Series: Wednesday Play
Channel: BBC1
Production company: BBC
Theatre company: Royal Shakespeare Company

Director

Waris Hussein

Producer

Lionel Harris

Theatre Director

John Schlesinger

Playwright

Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)

Adapted for Television by

Jeremy Brooks

Translator

Sonia Orwell

Composer

Michael Dress

Designer

Richard Henry (for television)

Designer

Timothy O’Brien (for theatre)

Cast

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