Learning on ScreenThe Wild Duck
- Summary
- This Associated-Rediffusion production of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck is a ‘filmed play’ for ITV: in other words, it is a 35mm feature film of a theatre production, with the original cast, shot on a sound stage at Shepperton Studios. The actor and producer John Clements staged The Wild Duck, which was directed by Murray Macdonald, at the Saville Theatre at the end of 1955. Clements, who was also working as an adviser on drama for Associated-Rediffusion, transplanted the stage production, with its full cast, to Shepperton and there employed the film director Charles Crichton to shoot a screen version (source: John Wyver’s Screen Plays blog article at http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-wild-duck-a-rsaville-theatrejohn-clements-for-itv-1957).
- Theatre play
- The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 30 January 1957
- Time
- 8.00-9.30pm
- Series
- Play of the Week
- Channel
- ITV
- Production company
- Associated-Rediffusion (1955-1964)
- Theatre company
- Saville Theatre, London
Credits
- Director
- Charles Crichton
- Producer
- John Clements (1910-1988)
- Director of Photography
- Walter J. Harvey
- Playwright
- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
- Adapted for Television by
- Max Faber
- Cast
Angela Baddeley Gina Ekdal Robert Beaumont Moivik John Bennett Graaberg Charles Carson (1885-1977) Haakon Werle Jacqueline Forster Maid Michael Gough Gregers Werle Laurence Hardy Dr Relling Michael Hitchman Chamberlain Balle Peggy Livesey Mrs Bertha Sorby George Relph Old Ekdal Alex Scott Chamberlain Flor Graham Stuart Petersen Aidan Turner Chamberlain Kaspersen Dorothy Tutin Hedvig Emlyn Williams (1905-1987) Hjalmar Ekdal
Additional details
- Origination
- Filmed in studio
- Play tags
- Norwegian drama
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- The Wild Duck (1957)
- Archive
- BFI Research Viewing Service [more information]
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Print sources
- Title
- International Theatre: The Wild Duck (John Clements / Saville Theatre / A-R for ITV, 1957) (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-wild-duck-a-rsaville-theatrejohn-clements-for-itv-1957, 19 July 2011
- Title
- ITV Puts on an Ibsen Play: The Wild Duck (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 31 January 1957, p. 7
- Title
- The Wild Duck, 1957 (Archive files)
- Archive
- BFI Reuben Library [more information]
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- Reference
- Special Collections, Associated-Rediffusion Television papers
- Notes
- File 1/2 contains the shooting script, dated 16 February 1956 and contracts with performers. File 2/2 contains correspondence and contracts regarding American transmissions, 1965-66.
- Title
- TV Times, 25 January 1957 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article, pp. 6-7; listing, p. 19
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