A Midsummer Night’s Dream [excerpts]
- Summary
- BBC production of excerpts from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, produced by Dallas Bower.
- Theatre play
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 18 February 1937
- Time
- 3.55pm (6 mins)
- Series
- Scenes from Shakespeare
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Dallas Bower (1907-1999)
- Cast
Patricia Hilliard Titania D. Hay Petrie Bottom
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- children’s drama; Elizabethan drama; Greece, as theme or setting; marriage; supernatural; theatre or acting, as theme
Print sources
- Title
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1937 (Archive file)
- Archive
- BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) [more information]
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- Reference
- T5/332, 1937-56
- Title
- BBC Television Programme Records: vol. 1, 1937-38 (Book)
- Reference
- London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1938
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 14
- Title
- Radio Times, 12 February 1937 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 8
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