She Stoops to Conquer

Summary: 1966 BBC presentation of the Bristol Old Vic’s production of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, presented in two parts, with a five-minute break for the news.
Theatre play: She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night by Oliver Goldsmith [more information]
Play synopsis: In this comedy the wealthy countryman Mr Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet the complete opposite around women of lower-class, thus Kate ‘stoops to conquer’ by posing as a maid, hoping to put Marlow at his ease; he falls for her and they become engaged. The main sub-plot is the secret romance between Miss Constance Neville, another young woman who lives with the Hardcastles, and Marlow’s friend George Hastings, who also become engaged.
Production history: First performed in London in 1773.
Date of transmission: Sunday 29 May 1966
Time: 9.10-10.20pm; 10.25-11.10pm
Series: Theatre 625
Channel: BBC2
Production company: BBC
Theatre company: Bristol Old Vic Company

Director

Roger Jenkins

Television Production by

Brandon Acton-Bond

Theatre Producer

Val May

Playwright

Oliver Goldsmith

Designer

Graham Barlow (of theatre production)

Costumes

Audrey Price

Cast

Peter Baldwin	Hastings
Stanley Bates	Potboy / Thomas
Julian Battersby	Slang / Roger
Patrick Black	Flunkey
Keith Bowles	Diggory
Anna Carteret	Constance Neville
Brenda Chabas	Barmaid
Michael Fleming	Twist
Jeremy Godden	Flunkey
Gawn Grainger	Tony Lumpkin
Michael Greenstead	Flunkey
Hazel Hughes	Mrs Hardcastle
Barbara Leigh-Hunt	Kate Hardcastle
Clive Molloy	Musician
Michael Pemberton	Aminadab
Susan Pitts	Pimple
Anthony Rowe	Flunkey
Patrick Stewart	Mr Hardcastle / Sir Charles Marlow
Desmond Stokes	Landlord
Michael Swindlehurst	Flunkey
John Warner	Young Marlow
David White	Flunkey

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