Celebration

Summary

1965 BBC studio production of Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse’s northern comedy.

Theatre play

The Wedding by Willis Hall (1929-2005) and Keith Waterhouse [more information]

Play synopsis

The two plays The Wedding and The Funeral were presented together under the overall title Celebration. They focus on the same north country family initially preparing for a wedding breakfast and six months later assembling again for a funeral.

Production history

First staged in 1961.

Date of transmission

Thursday 4 March 1965

Channel

BBC2

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Mary Ridge

Producer

Bernard Hepton

Playwright

Willis Hall (1929-2005)

Playwright

Keith Waterhouse

Music

Dudley Simpson (1922-)

Designer

Sally Hulke

Story Editor

Rodney Gedye

Cast

Trevor Bannister	Jack Lucas
Angela Crow	Irene Howes
Noel Dyson	Rhoda Lucas
Dudley Foster	Sergeant-Major Tommy Lodge
Nancie Jackson	Lilian Howes
Leslie Lawton	Stan Dyson
Jayne Muir	Christine Lucas
Jennifer Oulton	Margo Fuller
Bert Palmer	Edgar Lucas
Linda Polan	May Beckett
Leonard Rossiter	Frank Broadbent
Derek Smee	Lionel Fuller
Brian Smith	Bernard Fuller
Julian Somers	Arthur Broadbent
Jane Tann	Edna Fuller
Joan Young	Alice Fuller

Additional details

Origination

Recorded in studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Repeated on BBC2 at 8.45pm on Thursday 24 August 1965.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

marriage; north of England, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 19 August 1965 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article and picture, p. 42, listing, p. 44