Arms and the Man
- Summary
- 1958 BBC Television production of G. B. Shaw’s Arms and the Man.
- Theatre play
- Arms and the Man by [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 5 October 1958
- Time
- 8.45-10.10pm
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Alan Bromly
- Playwright
- [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- Designer
- Stephen Bundy
- Cast
Stanley Baker Major Sergius Saranoff Ina de la Haye Catherine Petkoff Carl Duering in an unnamed part Joanna Dunham Louka Geoffrey Keen Nicola Alan MacNaughtan (1920-2002) Captain Bluntschli Susan Maryott Raina Petkoff Ian Wallace Major Petkoff
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; comedy; marriage; wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 3 October 1958 (Newspaper review)
- Linking notes
- article, p. 7; listing, p. 13
- Title
- War No Longer Romantic: Arms and the Man not Sizzling Now (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 6 October 1958, p. 3
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