A Life in the Sun [Act 1]

Summary

1955 BBC presentation of Act 1 of A Life in the Sun by Thornton Wilder, from the stage of the Assembly Hall, Edinburgh, the specific space for which this play was written, performed before an invited audience at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Theatre play

A Life in the Sun by Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) [more information]

Play synopsis

The action of the play takes place in the rear court of the Palace of Admetus, King of Thessaly.

Production history

Specially written for the Edinburgh Festival in 1955.

Date of transmission

Sunday 28 August 1955

Time

9.15-10.00pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Tyrone Guthrie

Television Presentation by

James Buchan

Playwright

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)

Cast

Madeleine Christie	Aglaia
Michael David	Apollo
Geoffrey Dunn	Teiresias
David Gloag	The Boy
Philip Guard	A Herdsman
Laurence Hardy	A Watchman
Robert Hardy	Admetus
John Kidd	Death
Irene Worth (1916-2002)	Alcestis

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

American drama; Greek myth

Print sources

Title

Portable Paradise (Magazine review)

Author/creator

Philip Hope-Wallace (Author)

Reference

The Listener, 1 September 1955, p. 349

Title

Radio Times, 26 August 1955 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, article and image on p. 14