Montserrat
- Summary
- 1954 live BBC studio production of Emmanuel Robles’ play Montserrat, in the version by Lillian Hellman.
- Theatre play
- Montserrat by Lillian Hellman and Emmanuel Robles [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 14 September 1954
- Time
- 8.35-10.05pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Stephen Harrison
- Adapted for the Stage by
- Lillian Hellman
- Playwright
- Emmanuel Robles
- Designer
- John Clements (1910-1988)
- Cast
Clare Austin Felisa John Breslin Ricardo Peter Copley (1915-2008) Salcedo Denholm Elliott Montserrat Ronald Frazer Orderly Percy Herbert Morales Noel Howlett Father Coronil Randal Kinkead Monk Stephen Murray Izquierdo Wensley Pithey Salas Ina Donald Pleasance Luhan Maureen Pryor Matilde Eddie Sutherland Soldier Derek Sydney Antonanzas David Yates Zavala
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; American drama; French drama; Venezuela, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 10 September 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 26; article by Peter Watts, ‘When the Irresistible Force...', p. 4
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