Simon and Laura [excerpt]

Summary: 1954 BBC live broadcast of an excerpt from Alan Melville’s comedy Simon and Laura performed before an invited audience at the Strand Theatre, London; presented by arrangement with H. M. Tennent, Ltd.
Theatre play: Simon and Laura by Alan Melville (1910-1983) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'Satirising the early days of BBC Television, Simon and Laura focuses on an argumentative theatrical couple called Simon and Laura Foster; they’ve been together for some 20 years and are given a new lease of life when playing a faux-harmonious version of ‘themselves’ in a daily soap opera filmed in their own home’ (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_and_Laura, accessed 3 October 2013).
Production history: Simon and Laura opened at London’s Strand Theatre on 25 November 1954. It had earlier in the year been shown at the Opera House in Manchester.
Date of transmission: Monday 3 January 1955
Time: 8.15-9.00pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Television Presentation by

Alan Chivers

Theatre Director

Murray Macdonald

Playwright

Alan Melville (1910-1983)

Sets / Settings

Alan Tagg

Cast

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