Good Friday

Summary

1950 BBC live studio production of John Masefield’s ‘play in verse’ Good Friday, which was itself mounted on Good Friday.

Theatre play

Good Friday by John Masefield [more information]

Play synopsis

'A play in verse’, Good Friday was published as a dramatic poem in 1916. It tells the story of the Passion of Jesus.

Production history

Produced at the Garrick Theatre, London in 1917.

Date of transmission

Friday 7 April 1950

Time

8.45-9.50pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Douglas Allen

Playwright

John Masefield

Music

Thomas Henderson

Sets / Settings

James Bould

Associate Director

Lydia Sokolova ('the crowd directed by’)

Cast

John Baker	Third Citizen
John Boxer	Envoy from the Sanhedrin
Robert Brown	Herod
Oliver Burt	Joseph of Ramah
John Byron	Madman
Petra Davies	Fourth Citizen
Roy Dean	Sentry
John Foster	Trumpeter
Clement McCallin	Pontius Pilate
Evelyn Moore	Sixth Citizen
Kenneth Osbourne	Second Citizen
Christopher Page	First Citizen
Cecil Petty	Servant
Margaretta Scott	Procula
John Vere	Fifth Citizen
Hazel Vincent Wallace	Singer
Leonard White	Longinus
Aubrey Woods	A Disciple

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 31 March 1950 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 45; article by Lionel Hale, p. 46