Learning on ScreenShe Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night
- Summary
- The Radio Times dated 30 December 1955 describes this production as ‘A special television matinée by Final Students of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art [...] From the Vanbrugh Theatre, London’. The costumes and set were made by the students of the Theatre Department of the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
- Theatre play
- She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night by Oliver Goldsmith [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Friday 6 January 1956
- Time
- 2.45pm (120 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
- Theatre company
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)
Credits
- Directors
- Edward Burnham, Dennis Monger
- Television Presentation by
- Alan Sleath
- Playwright
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Set Designer
- Jane Graham
- Set Designer
- Tom Hills
- Costume Designer
- David Walker
- Cast
Robert Aldous Dick Muggins Keith Baxter-Wright Thomas Richard Briers Second Servant Antony Brown Diggory; Sir Charles Marlow David Burchell Stingo; Jeremy Patricia Burness Miss Kate Hardcastle John Church Tom Twist Robin Close Little Aminadab Drew Eliot Jack Slang Albert Finney Mr Hardcastle Susan Fuller Mrs Hardcastle Geraldine Hagain Miss Constance Neville Tristram Jellinek Hastings Roy Kinnear Tony Lumpkin Alan Penn Roger John Prys Marlow Anita Robinson Pimple Adrian Steed First Servant
Additional details
- Notes
- Transmitted in two parts part one, 2.45-3.45pm; and part two, 4-5pm.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 18th-century setting; class issues / differences; comedy
Print sources
- Title
- Radio and TV Programmes (Newspaper listing)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 6 January 1956, p. 13
- Title
- Radio Times, 30 December 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 44 and article by Edward Burnham, entitled ‘RADA Students in a Goldsmith comedy’ and illustrated with three b&w images, on p. 5
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