A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Summary
- 1958 BBC production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
- Theatre play
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 9 November 1958
- Time
- 8.45-10.20pm
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Rudolph Cartier
- Playwright
- William Shakespeare
- Adapted for Television by
- Eric Crozier (1914-1994)
- Composer
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
- Musical Arrangements by
- Leslie Bridgewater
- Designer
- Clifford Hatts
- Costume Supervisor
- Pamela Glanville
- Make-up Supervisor
- Rosemary Ross
- Choreographer
- Alfred Rodrigues
- Cast
Michael Bates Starveling Geoffrey Bayldon Philostrate Jennifer Daniel First Fairy Vivienne Drummond Helena Christine Finn Hermia Ronald Fraser Flute John Justin Oberon Eric Lander Demetrius John Longden Egeus Gillian Lynne Puck Gaynie MacSweenie Mustardseed Miles Malleson (1889-1969) Quince Hazel Merry Moth David Oxley Lysander Natasha Parry Titania Paul Rogers Bottom Vernie Ruthven Cobweb Peter Sallis Snug Jane Shore Peaseblossom John Warner Snout John Westbrook Theseus Margaret Whiting Hippolyta
Additional details
- Play tags
- children’s drama; Elizabethan drama; Greece, as theme or setting; marriage; supernatural; theatre or acting, as theme
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 7 November 1958 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article, pp. 4 and 7, and listing, p. 11
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