Men without Shadows

Summary: 1957 Associated Television production for ITV of Men without Shadows by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Theatre play: Men without Shadows [Morts sans sépultures] by Jean-Paul Sartre [more information]
Play synopsis: This play, ‘set in 1944, soon after D Day, presents a group of French resistance fighters who, after a failed attempt to secure a village which has resulted in a massacre among the inhabitants, have been captured and are now held for questioning by the collaborationist Milice, the right wing para-military force established to oppose the resistants’ (http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/menshadows-rev).
Production history: First produced just after the Second World War. ‘On the first night of this play’s London production, in 1947, six of the audience fainted’ (TV Times, 18 October 1957, p. 13).
Date of transmission: Friday 25 October 1957
Time: 10.30-11.30pm
Series: Television Playhouse
Channel: ITV
Production company: Associated Television (ATV, 1955-1982)

Director

Desmond Davis

Producer

Desmond Davis

Playwright

Jean-Paul Sartre

Adapted for Television by

Denis Webb

Translator

Kitty Black

Designer

Richard Negri

Cast

Extant status: No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags: France, as theme or setting; French drama; Second World War, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting

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