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]
Date of transmission
Tuesday 11 April 1961
Time
8.45-9.30pm
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC
Theatre company
Royal Shakespeare Company

Credits

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 AllenAuguste
Sylvia Beamish
Yvonne Bonnamy
James BreeThe King
Patsy Byrne
Leslie CaronOndine
John Cater
Roy Dotrice
Mavis Edwards
Gwen Ffrangcon-DaviesQueen Isolde
Wendy Gifford
Derek GodfreyThe King of Ondines
Alfred Hallett
Ian Holm
Peter Jeffrey
Richard JohnsonHans
Donald Layne-SmithThe Superintendent of the Theatres
Siân PhillipsBertha
Eric PorterThe Lord Chamberlain
Diana Rigg
Meg Ritchie
P. G. Stephens
David Sumner
Clive Swift

Additional details

Origination
Recorded in theatre
Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
French drama

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 6 April 1961 (Magazine)
Linking notes
illustrated article, p. 29; listing, p. 31

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