Donkey’s Years

Summary: 1980 Associated Television production for ITV of Donkey’s Years by Michael Frayn.
Theatre play: Donkey’s Years by Michael Frayn (1933-) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'The play is a West End farce, a genre that Frayn parodied five years later in his play within a play Nothing On from Noises Off. In Donkeys’ Years six former students spend the weekend at their old university college for their 25th year reunion. The wife of the Master of the college becomes locked within its walls for the night, supplying the material for a classical bedroom farce. A Government minister is placed in a series of embarrassing positions’. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkeys%27_Years.
Production history: Premiered at the Globe Theatre, London, in 1976. Penelope Keith subsequently won the 1976 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance.
Date of transmission: Tuesday 1 January 1980
Time: 9.00-10.30pm
Channel: ITV
Production company: Associated Television (ATV, 1955-1982)

Director

Kenneth Ives

Producer

Joan Brown

Playwright

Michael Frayn (1933-)

Designer

Richard Lake

Cast

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