The Deep Blue Sea
- Summary
- The first television production of Terence Rattigan’s drama The Deep Blue Sea, presented as a live BBC studio production in 1954.
- Theatre play
- The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 17 January 1954
- Time
- 8.40-10.35pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Julian Amyes
- Playwright
- Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)
- Sets / Settings
- Richard Wilmot
- Cast
David Aylmer Philip Welch Raymond Francis Jackie Jackson Robert Harris Sir William Collyer Peter Illing Mr Miller Gillian Lutyens Ann Welch Kenneth More Freddie Page Dandy Nichols Mrs Elton Googie Withers Hester Collyer
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 7.00pm on Thursday 21 January 1954.
- Notes
- Googie Withers, Kenneth More and a number of the rest of the cast reprised their roles from the Duchess Theatre premiere production of the play in 1952. Kenneth More also played the role of Freddie Page in the 1955 feature film adaptation directed by Anatole Litvak.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- sexuality (and morality, politics etc); suicide
Print sources
- Title
- People and puppets (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Anthony Curtis (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 21 Janaury 1954, p. 153
- Notes
- Includes a production photograph of The Dashing White Sergeant
- Title
- Radio Times, 15 January 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, photograph and article by Peter Forster, ‘The Best Post-war English Play’, p. 14
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