The Face of Love
- Summary
- 1954 live BBC studio production of Ian Dallas’ modern re-telling of the story of Troilus and Cressida.
- Theatre play
- The Face of Love by Ian Dallas (1930- ) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 5 October 1954
- Time
- 8.15-9.45pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Alvin Rakoff
- Playwright
- Ian Dallas (1930- )
- Designer
- Richard Wilmot
- Cast
John Breslin Aeneas Janet Butler Philomena John Charlesworth Aidos Maurice Colbourne Pandarus Peter Cushing Mardian Nuna Davey Philo’s Wife Roy Grant Child Brigid Lenihan Phyllida Ronald Lewis Diomedes Joan Miller (1910-1988) Helen Mary Morris Cressida Laurence Payne Troilus Eileen Peel Phrynia Donald Pleasance Alex George Rose Philo Hugh Sinclair Hector Kit Terrington Philo’s Son Alan Tilvern Ajax Paul Whitsun-Jones Agamemnon Leonard Williams Corporal Brian Worth Paris
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Greece, as theme or setting; Greek myth
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 1 October 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 26; article by Michael Barry, ‘A Natural Playwright’, p. 15
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