I Capture the Castle [excerpts]
- Summary
- 1954 live BBC outside broadcast of excerpts of Dodie Smith’s romantic comedy I Capture the Castle, given before an invited audience at the Coliseum Theatre, Oldham.
- Theatre play
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie [Dorothy Gladys] Smith (1896-1990) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 15 November 1954
- Time
- 8.15-9.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
- Theatre company
- Oldham Repertory Theatre Club
Credits
- Presented for Television by
- Barney Colehan
- Theatre Director
- Harry Lomax
- Playwright
- Dodie [Dorothy Gladys] Smith (1896-1990)
- Sets / Settings
- Eric Briers
- Cast
Barbara Ashcroft Mrs Cotton Berenice Barron Cassandra Mortmain Wilfrid Downing Thomas Mortmain Rosina Enright Topaz Mortmain Anna Gymer Ivy Stebbins Peter Kennaby Vicar Ronald Magill James Mortmain Keith Marsh Aubrey Fox-Cotton Janet Munro Rose Mortmain Madeleine Newbury Miss Marcy Ronald Richards Simon Cotton Tony Tanner Stephen Colly Philip Whittle Neil Cotton Shelagh Wood Leda Fox-Cotton
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from theatre
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 12 November 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 18
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