The Powder Magazine

Summary

1955 BBC production of The Powder Magazine by Norman Hudis.

Theatre play

The Powder Magazine by Norman Hudis [more information]

Play synopsis

Set in the offices of a women’s magazine, this play is the story of three women experience of the challenges of professional life.

Production history

Published in 1950, but it’s performance history on stage has not yet come to light.

Date of transmission

Sunday 14 August 1955

Time

9.00-10.30pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Alan Bromly

Playwright

Norman Hudis

Adapted for Television by

Alan Bromly

Adapted for Television by

Norman Hudis

Designer

Richard Wilmot

Cast

Pamela Alan	Helen Burnham
Noël Hood	Frances Croft
Ronald Howard	Michael Maxon, QC
Roger Livesey	Jonathan Hythe
William Lucas	T. Barrington Chamming
Sylvia Syms	Janet Towne

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

gender roles; journalism / the press / newspapers

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, 12 August 1955 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, article and image on p. 14