The Long Christmas Dinner

Summary: 1957 BBC Television production of Thornton Wilder’s The Long Christmas Dinner.
Theatre play: The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'The action covers ninety years in the history of the Bayard family in New England - from the first Christmas dinner in the new house to the last Christmas dinner of all’ (Radio Times, 4 October 1957, p. 17).
Production history: 'The Long Christmas Dinner was published in January 1931 along with five other plays collected in The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act. It was first performed on November 25, 1931, at the Yale University Theater in New Haven, Connecticut with three other one-acts from that book: Love, and How To Cure It; Such Things Only Happen in Books; and The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden’. Source: http://www.twildersociety.org/works/the-long-christmas-dinner.
Date of transmission: Tuesday 8 October 1957
Time: 8.45pm (30 mins)
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Finlay J. Macdonald

Playwright

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)

Designer

Stephen Taylor

Cast

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