Learning on ScreenThe Fortrose Incident
- Summary
- 1959 BBC Television production of J. B. Priestley’s Home is Tomorrow, under the title The Fortrose Incident.
- Theatre play
- Home is Tomorrow by J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 10 May 1959
- Time
- 8.00pm (90 mins)
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Naomi Capon
- Playwright
- J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)
- Designer
- Stephen Bundy
- Dances Arranged by
- Harold Holmes
- Dancer
- David Berahzer
- Dancer
- Anita Farr
- Dancer
- Richardina Jackson
- Dancer
- Bari Johnson
- Dancer
- Elroy Joseph
- Dancer
- Abul Lafleur
- Dancer
- Naida Lane
- Dancer
- Ken McGregor
- Cast
Michael Aldridge Sir Edward Fortrose Phil Brown Nils Dayton Aleksander Browne ISlander Mark Dignam Sir George Surrey Margaret Freeman unnamed part Ali Ganda unnamed part Astley Harvey unnamed part Geoffrey Hibbert Professor Chu Helen Horton Ann Westfield David Lander Dr Merzheim Richard Leech Vezabar Barry Letts Lerma David Ludman unnamed part Marne Maitland Louis Riberac Rosalind Nunez unnamed part Zorenah Osborne Rosa Olacca Ilarrio Pedro unnamed part George Pravda Dr Melnik Roma Richards unnamed part Dorothy Robson unnamed part Michael Seaver Karam Elizabeth Sellars Lady Fortrose Eric Thompson Felipe June Vivian unnamed part
Additional details
- Play tags
- Caribbean, as theme or setting; politics
Print sources
- Title
- Fortrose Incident: Priestley on Television (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 11 May 1959, p. 3
- Title
- Radio Times, 8 May 1959 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- illustrated article and listing, p. 11
- Title
- Rough Island Story (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Ivor Brown (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Listener, 14 May 1959, pp. 860-61
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