The Letter

Summary: BBC Television production of Somerset Maugham’s The Letter.
Theatre play: The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'In the play, the action takes place in the house of a plantation owner, Robert Crosbie, and his wife Leslie in the then-British colony of Malaya, and later in the Chinese quarter of Singapore. With the husband away on business, the wife claims that she shot the mutual friend, Geoff Hammond, in self-defence, following an attempted rape, and the play focuses on the steps taken by the wife’s lawyer to convince the court of her innocence, following the discovery of an incriminating letter.' Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_%28play%29.
Production history: The Letter is a play by W. Somerset Maugham dramatised from a short story that first appeared in his 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree. It was adapted into a play for its stage premiere in London in 1927.
Date of transmission: Sunday 2 December 1956
Time: 8.00pm (90 mins)
Series: Sunday-Night Theatre
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Michael Elliott

Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Adaptor of Script

Michael Voysey

Musician

Wilfred Smith (Chinese flute)

Designer

Roy Oxley

Cast

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