Getting Married

Summary

BBC production of G. B. Shaw’s comedy Getting Married.

Theatre play

Getting Married by [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) [more information]

Play synopsis

This comedy concerns the gathering of family members for a marriage as a means of satirizing the status of marriage in Shaw’s day, with a particular focus on the necessity of making divorce laws more liberal.

Production history

Premiered in 1908 at the Haymarket Theatre, London.

Date of transmission

Thursday 7 March 1957

Time

8.30pm (90 mins)

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Alan Bromly

Playwright

[George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Designer

John Cooper

Cast

Iris Baker	Mrs Bridgenorth
Donald Churchill	Cecil Sykes
Miranda Connell	Leo
Georgina Cookson	Lesbia Grantham
James Hayter	Collins
Silvia Herklots	Edith
Anthony Nicholls	The Bishop
Donald Price	St John Hotchkiss
Margaret Rawlings (1906-1996)	Mrs George
Hugh Sinclair	Reginald
Patrick Waddington	General Bridgenorth
Freddie Watts	The Beadle
Douglas Wilmer	Soames

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy; Edwardian drama

Print sources

Title

Getting Married on TV: Shavian Comedy-Debate (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Manchester Guardian, 8 March 1957, p. 7

Title

Hero’s Quack-Box (Newspaper review)

Author/creator

Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)

Reference

The Observer, 10 March 1957, p. 14

Title

Radio Times, 1 March 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

pp. 7 (article) and 21 (listing)