Nekrassov [excerpt]

Summary: 1957 BBC Television presentation of a 45-minute excerpt from Sartre’s Nekrassov, televised direct from the Royal Court, London. This is likely to have been the first time that a production was televised from the dress rehearsal the night before the opening.
Theatre play: Nekrassov by Jean-Paul Sartre [more information]
Play synopsis: A play about ‘a professional swindler who, with the help of a down-and-out journalist, manages to pass himself off in Paris as a high-ranking Soviet official in search of political asylum. The resulting situation enables Sartre to poke fun at pomposity and humbug in politics, the press, the police, and the public’ (Radio Times, 13 September 1957, p. 5).
Production history: First staged in Paris in June 1955.
Date of transmission: Monday 16 September 1957
Time: 8.00-8.45pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC
Theatre company: English Stage Company

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George Devine

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Title: Crime and the Law: Two Sides of the Same Coin. Moving Theme of a Masterly Play (Newspaper review)
Author/creator: Bernard Levin (Reviewer)
Reference: The Manchester Guardian, 21 September 1957, p. 3

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