Tovarich
- Summary
- 1954 BBC live studio production of Jacques Deval’s comedy Tovarich, in the adaptation by Robert E. Sherwood.
- Theatre play
- Tovarich by Jacques Deval (1890-1972) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 24 January 1954
- Time
- 8.55-10.40pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Eric Fawcett
- Playwright
- Jacques Deval (1890-1972)
- Adaptor of Script
- Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955)
- Sets / Settings
- Roy Oxley
- Cast
Peter Cushing Prince Mikhail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff Isolde James Madame Chauffourier-Dubieff Harold Jamieson Martelleau Agnes Lauchlan Madame Van Hemert Andrew Laurence Count Feodor Brekenski Gerald C. Lawson Concierge Richard Marner Commissar Gorotchenko George Merritt Chauffourier-Dubieff Clive Morton Charles Dupont Michael Newell Georges Dupont Beatrice Rowe Louise Frances Rowe Fernande Dupont Ruth Shiell Hélène Dupont Ann Todd Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 7.30pm on Thursday 28 January 1954.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; France, as theme or setting; French drama; Russia (Soviet Union etc), as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 22 January 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and brief article, p. 14
- Title
- Revivals and Miracles (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Anthony Curtis (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 28 Janaury 1954, p. 195
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