The Cocktail Party
- Summary
- BBC production of T. S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party.
- Theatre play
- The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 4 April 1957
- Time
- 8.30pm (90 mins)
- Series
- Henry Sherek Presents
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Michael Barry
- Playwright
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- Designer
- Stephen Taylor
- Cast
Maxine Audley Celia Coplestone Gladys Boot Julia Shuttlethwaite Eric Lander Peter Quilpe Henry Livings (1929-1998) A Caterer’s Man Ralph Michael Unidentified guest, later identified as Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly Eileen Peel Lavinia Chamberlayne Ronald Price Alexander MacColgie Gibbs Moira Redmond Nurse-Secretary John Robinson Edward Chamberlayne
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- marriage
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Television: The Cocktail Party (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 5 April 1957, p. 3
- Title
- Cocktail Party Gains Polish but Loses Mystery (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 5 April 1957, p. 6
- Title
- Radio Times, 29 March 1957 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- pp. 7 (article) and 23 (listing)
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