The Apollo of Bellac
- Summary
- 1955 BBC production of The Apollo of Bellac by Jean Giraudoux.
- Theatre play
- The Apollo of Bellac [L’Apollon de Bellac] by Jean Giraudoux [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Friday 12 August 1955
- Time
- 10.15-10.40pm
- Series
- Appointment with Drama
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Tony Richardson
- Playwright
- Jean Giraudoux
- Translator
- Henry Mara
- Cast
Campbell Cotts President Mark Dignam Secretary General Denholm Elliot M. de Bellac Violet Gould Secretary Jane Henderson Teresa Gerald C. Lawson Porter Natasha Parry Agnes
Additional details
- Play tags
- French drama
Print sources
- Title
- Lady Editor (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 18 August 1955, p. 270
- Notes
- Of The Apollo of Bellac: ‘Mr Richardson also had a verbose and whimsically amusing Giraudoux fantasy... on which Denholm Elliott, Natasha Perry, Campbell Cotts and Jane Henderson, as wife of same, went gamely to work.'
Includes enthusiasti creview of The Powder Magazine and a production photgraph.
- Title
- Radio Times, 5 August 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 44
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