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]
Play synopsis: The play concerns an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in genteel poverty in a decaying castle during the 1930s. The first person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, an intelligent teenager who tells the story through her journal. It is a coming-of-age story in which Cassandra passes from being a girl at the beginning to being a young woman at the end. (adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Capture_the_Castle; accessed 3 May 2015)
Production history: Dodie Smith wrote the novel of I Capture the Castle during World War Two and it was published in 1949. A stage adaptation was performed in 1954.
Date of transmission: Monday 15 November 1954
Time: 8.15-9.00pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC
Theatre company: Oldham Repertory Theatre Club

Presented for Television by

Barney Colehan

Theatre Director

Harry Lomax

Playwright

Dodie [Dorothy Gladys] Smith (1896-1990)

Sets / Settings

Eric Briers

Cast

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