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]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 3 January 1955
- Time
- 8.15-9.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Television Presentation by
- Alan Chivers
- Theatre Director
- Murray Macdonald
- Playwright
- Alan Melville (1910-1983)
- Sets / Settings
- Alan Tagg
- Cast
Coral Browne Laura Foster Dora Bryan Janet Honeyman Esma Cannon Jessie Michael Caridia Timothy Ian Carmichael David Prentice Roland Culver Simon Foster Vivienne Drummond Miss Mills Thomas Elliott Bert Kenneth MacLeod Joe David Morrell Barney Roger Page Archie Ronald Radd Mr Wolfstein Pauline Stroud Mabel Ernest Thesiger Wilson
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from theatre
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; television, as theme; theatre or acting, as theme
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 31 December 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, brief article and photograp, p. 18
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