Learning on ScreenThe Black Eye
- Summary
- BBC Television production of James Bridie’s The Black Eye.
- Theatre play
- The Black Eye by James Bridie (1888-1951) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 4 December 1955
- Time
- 8.15pm (90 mins)
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Campbell Logan
- Playwright
- James Bridie (1888-1951)
- Designer
- Jack Notman
- Cast
Arthur Boland a minor part Joseph Brady a minor part Meg Buchanan Mrs Scoullar James Butler A Waiter Fiona Cumming a minor part Oona Finlayson a minor part Ethel Glendinning Mrs Windlestraw Gwynneth Guthrie Connie David Kossof Samuel Samuels James MacTaggart George Duncan McIntyre Angus Windlestraw Francis McKevitt a minor part Doris McLatchie Louie David Mowat McGillivray Bryden Murdoch Johnnie Deidre Murray Katie, the Maid Mary Murray a minor part Ian Richardson a minor part Charles Scotter a minor part Richard Statman a minor part Celia Struthers a minor part Susan Tress a minor part Harry Walker a minor part Maisie Watson a minor part Aileen Wilson Elspeth Crawford
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Scotland, as theme or setting; Scottish drama
Print sources
- Title
- Juvenile Leadings (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Listener, 8 December 1955, pp. 1016-17
- Linking notes
- with b&w image of a scene from the production
- Title
- More Animals (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 11 December 1955, p. 8
- Title
- Radio Times, 2 December 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and article on pp. 14 and 15; listing illustrated with a shot from the performance
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