Learning on ScreenMidsummer Fire [sic]
- Summary
- 1955 BBC production of Ashley Dukes’ English translation of Midsummer Fire by Hermann Sudermann, the plot of which was transplanted from East Prussia to Mexico by the producer Rudolph Cartier. The Castillas Twins provided ‘traditional guitar music and songs’.
- Theatre play
- Midsummer Fire [Johannisfeuer] by Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 17 April 1955
- Time
- 8.45-10.15pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Rudolph Cartier
- Playwright
- Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928)
- Adapted for Television by
- Rudolph Cartier
- Translator
- Ashley Dukes (1885-1959)
- Designer
- John Clements (1910-1988)
- Choreographer
- Robert Harrold
- Dancer
- Betty Ash
- Dancer
- Kathryn Beetham
- Dancer
- Brian Blades
- Dancer
- Philip Casson
- Dancer
- David Gardiner
- Dancer
- Tom Gillis
- Dancer
- Robert Hargreaves
- Dancer
- Sheila Holt
- Dancer
- Jack Horton
- Dancer
- Pauline Innes
- Dancer
- Wendy McClune
- Dancer
- Malcolm McDonald
- Dancer
- Kenneth Melville
- Dancer
- Judy Monitz
- Dancer
- Joan Nesbit
- Dancer
- Janice Patrick
- Dancer
- Ann Waterfield
- Dancer
- Fay Weldon
- Dancer
- Matthew Winsten
- Dancer
- Val Worth
- Cast
George Coulouris Edmundo Vargas Norah Gorsen Alicia Noël Hood Isabel Miriam Lehmann Petra Wolfe Morris Pepe Laurence Payne Luis Ybarra Jeannette Sterke Maria Patrick Troughton Sanchez Eileen Way La Cachiporra
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; German drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 15 April 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- images and listing, p. 14; Rudolph Cartier’s article ‘A Mexican Love-Story’, p. 15
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