Zuleika [extract]
- Summary
- BBC production of a 45-minute extract from Zuleika, a new musical comedy drawing on Max Beerbohm’s novel Zuleika Dobson, presented in a special performance from the Saville Theatre, London.
- Theatre play
- Zuleika by James Ferman (1930-2002) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 12 June 1957
- Time
- 9.30pm
- Series
- Theatre Night
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Directors
- Eleanor Fazan, Peter Powell
- Charles Mackerras (credited with ‘Orchestration’)
- Television Presentation by
- John Vernon
- Playwright
- James Ferman (1930-2002)
- Composer
- Peter Tranchell
- Lyrics
- James Ferman (1930-2002)
- Musical Direction
- Alan Abbott
- Sets / Settings
- Osbert Lancaster
- Costumes
- Osbert Lancaster
- Cast
David Ayliff a minor part Christopher Bamford a minor part Philip Bond Sir John Marraby Leighton Camden a minor part Roderick Cook Lord Sayes Raymond Cooke a minor part Gordon Cornish a minor part Delia Corrie a minor part Anthony Dawes a minor part Clive Exton The Hon. Charles Trent-Derby John Gower The Macquern Richard Hart a minor part Hermione Harvey a minor part Anne Hyde a minor part Yvonne Marlowe a minor part Mildred Mayne Zuleika Wendy McClure a minor part David Morton The Duke of Dorset Peter Murray a minor part David Oddie a minor part Elizabeth Osborn a minor part Michael O’Connor Oover Patricia Routledge a minor part Patricia Rowlands a minor part David Spurling a minor part Patricia Stark Katie Batch Daniel Thorndike The Warden of Judas Geoffrey Underwood a minor part Peter Woodthorpe Noaks Susan Wren a minor part
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- adaptation of novel; comedy; musical; universities, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- A New Zuleika: Latter-day Edwardian Siren of Oxford (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 12 April 1957, p. 9
- Linking notes
- n.b. a review of the stage production, not the excerpt shown on television
- Title
- Radio Times, 7 June 1957 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- p. 17, listing with photograph
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