Learning on ScreenAgainst the Stream
- Summary
- 1959 BBC Television production of Against the Stream, Victor Rietti’s English version of the comedy Pensaci Giacomino by Luigi Pirandello.
- Theatre play
- Pensaci Giacomino by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 11 October 1959
- Time
- 8.45-10.00pm
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- John Warrington
- Playwright
- Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
- Adapted for Television by
- Barry Thomas
- Translator
- Victor Rietti ('English version by’)
- Musician
- Bert Weedon (guitar)
- Designer
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
John Charlesworth Giacomino Erik Chitty (1907-1977) Cinquemani Caroline Denzil Lillina Brenda Dunrich Rosa Walter Hudd Signor Direttore Pauline Letts Rosaria Ellen Pollock Marianna Victor Rietti Professor Toti Robert Rietty Father Landolina Gladys Spencer Filomena
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- inheritance; Italian drama; Italy, as theme or setting; marriage
Print sources
- Title
- More Pirandello: Television Play Veers Uncomfortably (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 12 October 1959, p. 6
- Title
- Not the Best Pirandello (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 12 October 1959, p. 5
- Title
- Radio Times, 9 October 1959 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 11; article, p. 5
- Title
- Return to Normal (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 18 October 1959, p. 24
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