Ondine [Act 2]

Summary: 1961 BBC presentation of Act 2 of Ondine by Jean Giraudoux, ‘recorded at the Aldwych Theatre, London’ and performed by ‘the London Company of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre’. Theatre director Peter Hall introduced the broadcast excerpt.
Theatre play: Ondine by Jean Giraudoux [more information]
Play synopsis: 'Hans is a knight-errant who has been sent off on a quest by his betrothed. In the forest he meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man. The subsequent marriage of people from different worlds is, of course, folly. By turns comic, enchanting, and tragic, Ondine is considered by some to be Giraudoux’s finest work.' Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondine_%28play%29.
Production history: Premiered in 1939 in the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris.
Date of transmission: Tuesday 11 April 1961
Time: 8.45-9.30pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC
Theatre company: Royal Shakespeare Company

Television Presentation by

John Vernon

Theatre Director

Peter Hall

Playwright

Jean Giraudoux

Translator

Maurice Valoney (it is presumed that the credit ‘adapted by’ refers to the playtext and not the television production process)

Sets / Settings

Tanya Moiseiwitsch (1914-2003)

Costumes

Tanya Moiseiwitsch (1914-2003)

Introduced by

Peter Hall

Cast

Patrick Allen	Auguste
Sylvia Beamish
Yvonne Bonnamy
James Bree	The King
Patsy Byrne
Leslie Caron	Ondine
John Cater
Roy Dotrice
Mavis Edwards
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies	Queen Isolde
Wendy Gifford
Derek Godfrey	The King of Ondines
Alfred Hallett
Ian Holm
Peter Jeffrey
Richard Johnson	Hans
Donald Layne-Smith	The Superintendent of the Theatres
Siân Phillips	Bertha
Eric Porter	The Lord Chamberlain
Diana Rigg
Meg Ritchie
P. G. Stephens
David Sumner
Clive Swift

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