Festival Fever

Summary
This BBC production of Robert Kemp’s Festival Fever featured the Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter in the role of Gortchakovitch which he had played in the Edinburgh production of the play in the summer of the same year (Radio Times, 16 November 1956, p. 6).
Theatre play
Festival Fever by Robert Kemp (1908-1967) [more information]
Date of transmission
Thursday 22 November 1956
Time
8.00pm (75 mins)
Series
Henry Sherek Presents
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Barbara Burnham
Playwright
Robert Kemp (1908-1967)
Designer
Fanny Taylor
Cast
Rona AndersonElizabeth
Stanley BaxterVassili Gortchakovitch
Michael DenisonEdward de Trouville-Delaney
Margaret HalstanThe Lady Provost
Grizelda HerveyMrs Langwind
John LaurieAnnie’s Father
Michael O’HalloranMajor the Master of Tomintoul
Susan RichmondMiss Urquhart-Innes
Mairhi RussellAnnie
Christopher SteeleProfessor Langwind

Additional details

Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
comedy; farce; Russia (Soviet Union etc), as theme or setting; Scotland, as theme or setting; Scottish drama

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 16 November 1956 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing and article

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