Learning on ScreenA Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Summary
- Associated-Rediffusion production for ITV of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Benny Hill as Bottom. The production featured music by the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Ambrosian Singers.
- Theatre play
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 24 June 1964
- Series
- Play of the Week
- Channel
- ITV
- Production company
- Associated-Rediffusion (1955-1964)
Credits
- Director
- Joan Kemp-Welch (1906-1999)
- Lighting
- Bill Lee
- Playwright
- William Shakespeare
- Adapted for Television by
- George H. W. Rylands
- Musical Arrangements by
- Guy Woolfenden
- Musical Direction
- Guy Woolfenden
- Conductor
- Guy Woolfenden (Philharmonia Orchestra)
- Singer
- Oarien Angadi (soloist)
- Designer
- Michael Yates
- Costume Designer
- Sheila Jackson
- Choreographer
- Juan Corelli
- Dancer
- Natasha Ashton
- Dancer
- Dianne Chele
- Dancer
- Ronnie Curran
- Dancer
- Terry Gilbert
- Dancer
- Carole Grant
- Dancer
- Lynda Jones
- Dancer
- Yvonne Joseph
- Dancer
- Annabel King
- Dancer
- Janet Kinson
- Dancer
- Helen Magner
- Dancer
- Priscilla Ruffell
- Dancer
- Rosemary Toombs
- Cast
Patrick Allen Theseus Alfie Bass Flute Tony Bateman Philostrate Maureen Beck Hermia Jill Bennett Helena Bernard Bresslaw Snout Peter Church Peaseblossom Clifford Elkin Demetrius John Fraser Lysander Kay Frazer Fairy Eira Heath Hippolyta Arthur Hewlett Snug Benny Hill Bottom Cyril Luckham Egeus Miles Malleson (1889-1969) Quince Anna Massey Titania Michael Newport Mustardseed Bill Shine Starveling Diana Simpson Cobweb Tony Tanner Puck Stanley Thomas Moth Peter Wyngarde Oberon
Additional details
- Notes
- The cast and credits were taken from the end credits of the archive copy of the production held in the BFI Library.
- Play tags
- children’s drama; Elizabethan drama; Greece, as theme or setting; marriage; supernatural; theatre or acting, as theme
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ITV, 1964)
- Archive
- BFI Reuben Library [more information]
Address
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road
Email
South Bank
London
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UKUse the contact form at http://www.bfi.org.uk/form/contact-bfi-library
Websitehttp://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/bfi-reuben-library/visiting-bfi-reuben-library
AccessThe BFI Library is open from 10.30am to 7.00pm, Tuesday to Saturday. Access to special collections material is by appointment.
Print sources
- Title
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Archive files)
- Archive
- BFI Reuben Library [more information]
Address
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road
Email
South Bank
London
SE1 8XT
UKUse the contact form at http://www.bfi.org.uk/form/contact-bfi-library
Websitehttp://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/bfi-reuben-library/visiting-bfi-reuben-library
AccessThe BFI Library is open from 10.30am to 7.00pm, Tuesday to Saturday. Access to special collections material is by appointment.
- Reference
- Special Collections, Associated-Rediffusion Television papers, file reference ART/918/1-2
- Notes
- File 1 contains contracts, internal memos, budgetary notes, purchase orders and correspondence regarding overseas distribution (Europe, the USA Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc). File 2 contains press booklet, booklets of ‘press comment’, Rediffusion press materials on the production, article from Fusion (Summer 1964), camera script, Programme as Telecast documents.
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