Learning on ScreenThe Duenna
- Summary
- 1953 BBC live studio production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s ‘play with songs’, The Duenna, based on a production by the Bristol Old Vic company. Sheridan’s work is sometimes characterised as an opera.
- Theatre play
- The Duenna by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 19 July 1953
- Time
- 8.50-10.25pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Theatre company
- Bristol Old Vic Company
Credits
- Producer
- Lionel Harris
- Theatre Producer
- Lionel Harris
- Playwright
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
- Adapted for Television by
- Lionel Harris
- Music
- Julian Slade
- Orchestrations by
- James Turner
- Sets / Settings
- John Cooper
- Dances Arranged by
- Elizabeth West
- Cast
David Bird Don Jerome Peter Bryant Lopez / Father Paul Richard Burrell Harlequin James Cairncross Don Antonio James Campbell Martelle Carstens Robert Cartland Don Carlos Kenneth Cope Gerald Cross Isaac Mendoza Bob Harris Pat Heywood Esther Laurence John Milligan Maureen Quinney Donna Clara Dorothy Reynolds Duenna Robert Rietty Don Ferdinand Jane Wenham Donna Louisa Elizabeth West Columbine
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 7.30pm on Thursday 23 July 1953.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; Restoration drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 17 July 1953 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and short article, p. 14
- Title
- Radio Times, 31 July 1953 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- 'Viewers’ Views’, a letter praising the production, p. 40
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