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 Anderson Elizabeth Stanley Baxter Vassili Gortchakovitch Michael Denison Edward de Trouville-Delaney Margaret Halstan The Lady Provost Grizelda Hervey Mrs Langwind John Laurie Annie’s Father Michael O’Halloran Major the Master of Tomintoul Susan Richmond Miss Urquhart-Innes Mairhi Russell Annie Christopher Steele Professor 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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