Learning on ScreenWill Shakespeare
- Summary
- 1953 BBC live studio production of Clemence Dane’s comedy Will Shakespeare, presented on Whit Sunday in the run-up to the Coronation.
- Theatre play
- Will Shakespeare: An Invention in Four Acts by Clemence Dane (1888-1965) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 24 May 1953
- Time
- 8.40-10.25pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Rudolph Cartier
- Playwright
- Clemence Dane (1888-1965)
- Music
- Richard Addinsell ('with new songs and music by’)
- Conductor
- Eric Robinson
- Sets / Settings
- Richard Wilmot
- Cast
Peter Augustine Drunkard / Hamlet Julian Bream Guitar Player Mary Clare Queen Elizabeth John Colicos Kit Marlowe Richard Cuthbert Landlord Margot Field Cleopatra Norah Gaussen Page / Ophelia Michael Godfrey Othello Walter Gotell Shylock Anthony Green Boy Actor Helen Lauder Street Hawker Delphi Lawrence Rosalind Wilfred [or Wilfrid] Lawson Henslowe Gerald Lennan Clown Enid Lindsey Mrs Hathaway Michael Mulcaster Prompter John Schlesinger Macduff / Drunkard Elizabeth Sellars Mary Fitton Vernon Smythe Julius Caesar Hugh Stewart Falstaff Irene Sutcliffe Lady-in-Waiting / Desdemona Grace Webb Portia Valerie White Anne Hathaway Peter Wyngarde Will Shakespeare
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 7.30pm on 28 May 1953.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 16th-century setting; historical drama; poetry and literature, as theme; theatre or acting, as theme
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 22 May 1953 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and brief article, p. 14
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