The Cab

Summary: 1938 BBC Television studio production of John Taylor’s one-act farce The Cab.
Theatre play: The Cab by John Taylor [more information]
Play synopsis: A farce. ‘The action centres about the arrival at a working-class home of a relative who although wealthy is unable to pay his cab fare, and the shifts made to escape the predicament.' The play used the Lancashire dialect. Source: ‘Wireless Notes’, The Manchester Guardian, 7 January 1935, p. 10.
Production history: Published by Garamond Press in 1934, in which year the play was awarded third prize at the Blackpool Drama Festival by the Manchester dramatic society The Chorlmores. Members of that company took part in the 1935 BBC Radio production. Source: ‘Wireless Notes’, The Manchester Guardian, 7 January 1935, p. 10.
Date of transmission: Saturday 10 September 1938
Time: 9.45-10.05pm (20 mins)
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Fred O’Donovan (1889-1952)

Playwright

Cast

Origination: Live from studio
Vision original: Monochrome
Later transmissions: Presented again at 3.35pm on Tuesday 20 September 1938, and at 9.40pm on Monday 26 December 1938 (with Edgar Bruce as Daniel Boothroyd), and at 3.35pm on Saturday 31 December 1938 (with Edgar Bruce and Marjorie Bresley as Lizzie Ann).
Extant status: No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags: class issues / differences; comedy; farce; north of England, as theme or setting

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