Twelfth Night or What You Will

Synopsis: Radio adaptation of the play produced by Charles Lefeaux. With Geraldine McEwan as Olivia, Dorothy Tutin as Viola, Stephen Murray as Malvolio, and Maurice Denham as Sir Toby. Music arranged by Alan Boustead and performed by Alana Jones (singer), Desmond Dupre (lute), Elizabeth Baines (viol), Frances Baines (recorder).
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Recording date: 13 Nov 1972
Transmission details: 7 May 1972 at 18:30 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
Duration: 150 (incl. interval)

General: It was McEwan’s performance as "mercurial Olivia" opposite Tutin’s Viola for Peter Hall’s Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play in 1958 that established McEwan’s fame as a classical actress. cf. also ‘Revolutionary Geraldine’, Radio Times, 6-12 March 1971, p. 4-5.
History: Broadcast with a 10-minute interval at 7.35 p. m. approximately.
Reviews: David Wade reviews the production in his article ‘Giving William the Works’ (The Times, 6 May 1972, p. 10).
Source: Radio Times, The Times

Dorothy Tutin	Viola (later disguised as Cesario)
Geraldine McEwan	Olivia
William Squire	Orsino, Duke of Illyria
Stephen Murray	Malvolio
Haydn Jones	Feste
Brian Hewlett	Curio
David Timson
Edward Kelsey	Antonio
John Moffatt	Sir Andrew Aguecheek
John Pullen	Sebastian
John Ruddock
Martin Friend
Maurice Denham	Sir Toby Belch
Michael Kilgarriff	Valentine
Ronald Herdman	Fabian
Sheila Grant	Maria
William Eedle	Captain

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