Troilus and Cressida
- Summary
- 1954 live BBC studio production of Shakespeare’s tragi-comedy Troilus and Cressida.
- Theatre play
- Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 19 September 1954
- Time
- 8.25-10.45pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producers
- Douglas Allen, George H. W. Rylands
- Playwright
- William Shakespeare
- Designer
- Michael Yates
- Fight Arranger
- Victor Adams
- Cast
Jill Balcon Cassandra Timothy Bateson Calchas / Alexander Michael Brennan Ajax Leo Ciceri Patroclus James Culliford Servant to Troilus Robert Delkyrke Donald Eccles Priam John Fraser Troilus Paul Hansard Aeneas Ivan Hiller Paul Homer Helenus / Margareleon Walter Hudd Ulysses Robert Hunter Ken James Simon Lack Paris Oswald Lawrence Andrew Leigh Nestor Victor Lucas Diomedes Cavan Malone Servant to Paris Arthur Mason Desmond Montgomery Joseph O’Conor Agamemnon Frank Pettingell Pandarus Rex Robinson Jeff Shane Helen Shingler Helen William Squire Hector Geoffrey Toone Achilles John Vere Menelaus Mary Watson Cressida Richard Wordsworth Thersites
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.45pm on Thursday 23 September 1954.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- ancient Greece; Elizabethan drama; Greek myth; wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 17 September 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 14; article by George Rylands, ‘The Death of Chivalry’, p. 4
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