Montserrat

Summary: Granada Television production for ITV of Montserrat by Emmanuel Robles and Lillian Hellman.
Theatre play: Montserrat by Lillian Hellman and Emmanuel Robles [more information]
Play synopsis: 'Montserrat (adapted from the French of Emmanuel Robles by Lillian Hellman) is a young Spanish officer sent to Venezuela in 1812 to help capture Bolivar. Actually, the idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide himand known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins’ (source: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801104,00.html).

Read more: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 7, 1949 - TIME http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801104,00.html#ixzz2njCG2Fv5
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Production history: Hellman’s version is dated to 1949 (see, for example, http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4529/Montserrat).
Date of transmission: Wednesday 19 February 1958
Time: 9.00-10.30pm
Series: Play of the Week
Channel: ITV
Production company: Granada Television (1956-)

Director

Phil Brown

Playwright

Emmanuel Robles

Adapted for Television by

George Brown

Adaptor of Script

Lillian Hellman (from the original French play)

Designer

Maurice Askew

Cast

Play tags: 19th-century setting; American drama; French drama; Venezuela, as theme or setting

Title: Plays for the Millions: The First 75. A Cross Index of Granada TV Play Productions (Book)
Reference: Published by Granada TV Network, 1960

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