Misalliance

Summary: 1962 Granada Television production for ITV of Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw, presented as part of a four-part season of Shaw’s plays.
Theatre play: Misalliance by [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) [more information]
Play synopsis: Misalliance, subtitled A Debate in One Sitting, takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead, Surrey in Edwardian era England. It is a continuation of some of the ideas on marriage that he expressed in 1908 in his play Getting Married. It was also a continuation of some of his other ideas on Socialism, physical fitness, the Life Force, and "The New Woman": i.e. women intent on escaping Victorian standards of helplessness, passivity, stuffy propriety, and non-involvement in politics or general affairs’ (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misalliance).
Production history: First staged in 1910.
Date of transmission: Tuesday 30 October 1962
Time: 9.15-10.45pm
Series: Play of the Week
Channel: ITV
Production company: Granada Television (1956-)

Director

Stuart Latham

Playwright

[George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Adapted for Television by

Hugh Leonard (1926-2009) ('edited for television by’)

Designer

Peter Phillips

Cast

Extant status: No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags: Edwardian drama; gender roles; marriage; sexuality (and morality, politics etc)

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