Learning on ScreenRococo
- Summary
- 1938 BBC Television studio production of Harley Granville-Barker’s one-act comedy Rococo.
- Theatre play
- Rococo by Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 9 August 1938
- Time
- 3.20-3.40pm (20 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Desmond Davis
- Playwright
- Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946)
- Cast
Frank Birch Frank Uglow Basil Cunard Reginald Uglow Renée de Vaux Mrs Underwood Marjorie Gabain Miss Carinthia Underwood Ena Moon Mrs Uglow Harold Scott Rev. Simon Underwood
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 9.45pm on Thursday 11 August 1938. Revived in 1939 on Friday 9 June at 9.20om and at 3.00pm on Thursday 15 June.
- Notes
- In the 1939 revival the new cast members were Ivor Barnard (as Rev Simon Underwood) and Marjorie Manning (as Miss Carinthia Underwood). Otherwise the cast remained as in 1938.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; Edwardian drama; farce; religion, as theme or subject
Print sources
- Title
- Broadcasting: Haydn-Mozart Concert (Newspaper listing)
- Reference
- The Times, 9 August 1938, p. 6
- Title
- Radio Times, 5 August 1938 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 17
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