Meet Me by Moonlight [excerpts]

Summary

1957 BBC production of excerpts from Anthony Lesser’s comedy Meet Me by Moonlight, given in a special performance at the Aldwych Theatre, London.

Theatre play

Meet Me by Moonlight by Anthony Lesser [more information]

Play synopsis

Set in the drawing-room of Henry Mansfield’s house in an English provincial town in 1884. Three daughters are encouraged in their search for husbands by a maiden aunt.

Production history

The 1957 production at the Aldwych Theatre, London (excerpts from which were televised: see Programme ID 584) may have been the premiere.

Date of transmission

Monday 2 September 1957

Time

9.00-9.45pm

Series

Theatre Night

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Terence Dudley

Television Presentation by

Michael Henderson

Playwright

Anthony Lesser

Designer

Anthony Holland

Costumes

Kate Servian

Cast

Jeremy Brett	Roderick
Michael Denison	Charles Cuttinghame
Sonia Graham	Mary Ellen
Ellis Irving	Henry Mansfield
Helen Jessop	Smith
Mavis Sage	Alice
Sophie Stewart (1908-1977)	Aunt Tabitha
Derek Tansley	Perkins
Stephanie Voss	Sarah

Additional details

Play tags

19th-century setting; comedy; farce; marriage; musical

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 30 August 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing and photograph on p. 11

Title

The Aldwych Theatre: Meet Me by Moonlight (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Times, 2 August 1957, p. 10