Learning on ScreenMedea, Part 1: In a Foreign Land
- Summary
- This three-part Associated-Rediffusion production of Euripides’ Medea was given as part of a wider set of programmes on ancient Greece entitled Theatres and Temples: The Greeks. Earlier programmes in this series included repeat transmissions of the 1961 ITV Schools productions of Iphigenia at Aulis (titled A Sacred Offering) and the three plays of the Oresteia trilogy (titled The Crimson Path, The Black Furies and The Judgement).
- Theatre play
- Medea by Euripides [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 12 March 1963
- Time
- 3.26pm
- Series
- Theatres and Temples: The Greeks
- Channel
- ITV
- Production company
- Associated-Rediffusion (1955-1964)
Credits
- Director
- Robert Stead
- Playwright
- Euripides
- Translator
- Philip Vellacott
- Chorus Directed by
- Mona Swann
- Designer
- Michael Yates
- Education Officer
- Maureen Price
- Cast
George Baker Jason (parts 2-3) Elizabeth Cassie Chorus (parts 1-3) Tom Criddle Messenger (part 3) Hugh Cross Aegeus (part 2) Jessica Hill Chorus (parts 1-3) Paul Holdaway Child (parts 1, 3) Barbara Jefford Medea (parts 1-3) Sarah Milton Chorus (parts 1-3) Anthony Nicholls Creon (part 1) Ebun Odutola Handmaiden Dawn Pearcy Chorus (parts 1-3) Janet Lees Price (1943-2012) Chorus (parts 1-3) Iris Rafferty Chorus (parts 1-3) Joan Southworth Tutor John Southworth Tutor (parts 1, 3) Frank Summerscales Child (parts 1, 3) Margery Withers Nurse (part 1)
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- Repeated two days later, and in 1964.
- Play tags
- Greek drama; tragedy
- Programme context tags
- schools television programming
Print sources
- Title
- Greek plays: Medea (A-R for ITV Schools, 1963) (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- Amanda Wrigley (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/greek-plays-medea-1963, published 28 September 2013
- Title
- Theatres and Temples: The Greeks (Archive files)
- Archive
- BFI Reuben Library [more information]
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- Notes
- The six files house brochures, contracts, correspondence and documents regarding overseas transmissions and payments for re-use of script; programme-as-telecast documents; scripts for programmes six (The Inquiring Mind) and seven (Legend and Belief) in the series.
- Title
- Theatres and Temples: The Greeks. Independent Television Programmes for Schools (Brochure)
- Reference
- http://www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/File:Drama_Theatres_and_Temples_cover_spring_1963.jpg (accessed 27 September 2013)
Associated programmes
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