Six Months’ Grace [excerpt]

Summary

BBC presentation of a 30-minute excerpt from the comedy Six Months’ Grace by Robert Morley and Dundas Hamilton, in a special performance from the Phoenix Theatre, London.

Theatre play

Six Months’ Grace by Robert Morley (1908-1992) and Dundas Hamilton [more information]

Play synopsis

The wives of the directors of a flourishing dried fruit firm assert that they could run the business as well as their husbands, Under their management the business comes to the brink of bankruptcy, but it transpires that they are the victims of a plot.

Production history

The premiere may have been at the Phoenix Theatre, London, in June 1957.

Date of transmission

Monday 8 July 1957

Time

8.30pm

Series

Theatre Night

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Eric Capon

Television Presentation by

Michael Henderson

Playwright

Dundas Hamilton

Playwright

Robert Morley (1908-1992)

Decor

Anthony Holland

Cast

Yvonne Arnaud (1892-1958)	Grace Barnes
Richard Caldicot	Albert Honeydew
Georgina Cookson	Lorna Loveday
Barbara Hicks	Miss Verney
Avril Leslie	Rita Moon
Stuart Saunders	George Ormeroyd
Michael Scott	David Butler
Michael Shepley	George Barnes
Anthony Tancred	Freddie Loveday
Molly Urquhart	Ethel Sims

Additional details

Play tags

comedy

Print sources

Title

Phoenix Theatre: Six Months’ Grace (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Times, 12 June 1957, p. 3

Linking notes

n.b. this is a review of the stage production, not the televised excerpt

Title

Radio Times, 5 July 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

p. 11