The Alchemist
- Summary
- 1961 BBC production of The Alchemist by Ben Jonson, ‘from the Midlands’, as noted in the Radio Times.
- Theatre play
- The Alchemist by Ben Jonson [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 29 May 1961
- Time
- 9.20-10.50pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Peter Dews
- Playwright
- Ben Jonson
- Designer
- Charles Carroll
- Cast
Colin Campbell Mary Chester Roger Croucher Alan Dobie Face Peter Duguid Kastril Thomas Gallagher Sir Epicure Mammon Tony Garnett Dame Pliant Murray Gilmore Timothy Harley Topsy Jane Loelia Kidd Henry Manning William Mervyn Lovewit Edward Petherbridge Dapper Patsy Rowlands Doll Common Terry Scully Abel Drugger Monica Stewart Isobel Swan John Warner Subtle David William Ananlas Jerome Willis Pertinax Surly
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 17th-century setting; comedy; Jacobean drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 25 May 1961 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article, p. 21; listing, p. 23
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