SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Radio play written for broadcasting by G. W. Stonier. Attempts to motivate Ophelia’s unexplained madness in Hamlet. With incidental music composed by Elizabeth Lutyens and conducted by Edward Clark.

Series

Imaginary Conversations

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Radio

Transmission details

24 Apr 1947 at 19:30 (Channel: BBC Third Programme)

Duration

60 mins

Availability

No archive copy traced.

Credits

Producer

Rayner Heppenstall

Writer

G. W. Stonier

Music

Elizabeth Lutyens

Contributor

Edward Clark

Cast

Cyril Cusack	Hamlet
Abraham Sofaer	Claudius
Mary O’Farrell	Gertrude
Joyce Redman	Ophelia
Alan Wheatley	Horatio
Andrew Churchman	First Soldier
Anne Cullen	Jenny, maid to Ophelia
Charles Leno	Third Soldier
Stanley Groome	Second Soldier

Additional Details

Production type

Television and Radio Drama

Plays

Hamlet

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

For more information behind the concept of the radio series, see the article ‘Dialogues of the Dead’ by producer Rayner Heppenstall, published in Radio Times, 4 February 1949.

There is a published version of the script in the collection Imaginary Conversations edited by Heppenstall (Secker & Warburg, 1948).

Production Company

Name

BBC

Notes

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)