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Suddenly Last Summer

Summary
1993 BBC Television production of Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams, presented in the Performance series.
Theatre play
Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams [more information]
Date of transmission
Saturday 6 November 1993
Time
8.15-9.40pm
Series
Performance
Channel
BBC2
Production company
BBC

Credits

Director
Richard Eyre
Producer
Simon Curtis
Director of Photography
Andrew Dunn
Playwright
Tennessee Williams
Composer
Richard Hartley
Designer
Bob Crowley
Editor
Mark Day
Executive Producer
Robert Fox
Cast
Richard E. Grant
Rosaleen Linehan
Rob Lowe
Gillian Raine
Moira Redmond
Natasha Richardson
Maggie Smith

Additional details

Play tags
American drama; mental health / illness; sexuality (and morality, politics etc)

Audiovisual sources

Title
Suddenly Last Summer (BBC, 1993)
Archive
BBC Information and Archives [more information]
Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title
Consuming Drama (Newspaper article)
Reference
The Times, 8 November 1993, p. 20
Title
Feast for Sore Psyches (Newspaper review)
Author/creator
Lynne Truss (Reviewer)
Reference
The Times, 8 November 1993, p. 29
Title
Neurotic Flow (Newspaper article)
Author/creator
Richard Morrison (Reviewer)
Reference
The Times, 6 November 1993, p. 4
Title
The Wheels of History (Newspaper review)
Author/creator
Hugh Hebert (Reviewer)
Reference
The Guardian, 8 November 1993, p. A7

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