SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Last in a six-part radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra directed by Dickon Reed. With Peter Whitman as narrator, Roy Dotrice as Antony and Maxine Audley as Cleopatra.

Series

Noble Romans, The

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Radio

Recording date

21 Jun 1979

Transmission details

8 Dec 1979 at 18:30 (Channel: BBC World Service)

Duration

60 mins

Credits

Director

Dickon Reed

Writer

Plutarch; William Shakespeare

Cast

Roy Dotrice	Mark Antony
Maxine Audley	Cleopatra
Martin Jarvis	Octavius Caesar
Phillip Fox	Sextus Pompey
Peter Jeffrey	Enobarbus
Brian Carroll	Eros
Candida Fawsitt	Iras
David Strong	Dolabella
Ellis Jones	Clown
Fred Bryant	Dercetus
Garard Green	Lepidus
Geoffrey Beevers	Messenger (3) (Messenger)
Geoffrey Matthews	Soothsayer
Hugh Dickson	Maecenas
Julian Fox	Messenger (2) (Messenger)
Michael Bilton	Schoolmaster
Michael McStay	Menas
Oliver Ford Davies	Ventidius
Penelope Lee	Octavia
Peter Craze	Thidias
Peter Pacey	Cleopatra’s Messenger (Messenger)
Peter Whitman	Narrator
Peter Whitman	Alexas
Peter Wickham	Agrippa
Philip Sully	Philo
Richard Derrington	Diomedes
Robert French	Demetrius
Rosalind Ayres	Charmian
Sean Barrett	Proculeius
Walter Hall	Mardian

Additional Details

Production type

Television and Radio Drama

Plays

Antony and Cleopatra

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

According to programme notes, Reed used Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Romans to provide introductions for each episode and to link passages between scenes. There has been little textual editing (op. cit.).

History

London Calling (op.cit.) claims that this is the first time that Shakespeare’s two Roman plays have been presented in this way. The series ‘The Noble Romans’ was originally transmitted in six 60-minute episodes on the BBC World Service English network.

Reviews

Source: London Calling, December 1979, p.10.

Production Company

Name

BBC World Service