Timon of Athens

Synopsis: Heavily cut radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted and produced for broadcasting by Peter Watts. With Valentine Dyall in the title role. The chronicler (narrator) in this adaptation is Neanthes of Cyzicus (Patrick Troughton), the orator and historian who set down the story of Timon 275 B.C.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 18 Jan 1953 at 18:50 (Channel: BBC Third Programme)
Duration: 110 mins
Availability: Unknown

Notes: Peter Watts talks about the many problems of Timon and his approach to adapting the play in ‘Shakespeare in a rage with Mankind’, Radio Times, 16 January 1953, p. 6.
General: Rehearsals: 14/1/1953-18/1/1953
History: First in a series of three seldom-performed Shakespeare plays that the BBC produced for broadcasting in 1953. See separate entries for Pericles (15/2/1953) and Titus Andronicus (15/3/1953).
Textual information: A written transcript of the production is held at the Birmingham Central Library as part of their Shakespeare Collection.
Reviews: Source: The Times, Radio Times

Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av70902 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)

Valentine Dyall	Timon of Athens
Cecil Trouncer	Apemantus
William Fox	Alcibiades
Will Leighton	Flavius
Richard Hurndall	Poet
Alan Nunn	Lucilius
Arthur Lawrence	Gossip
Arthur Ridley	Senator
Brendon Barry	Flaminius
Brian Hayes	Jeweller
Cyril Shaps	Merchant
Eric Anderson	Sempronius
Franklyn Bellamy	Philotus
Gabrielle Blunt
Garard Green	Gossip
Gerik Schjelderup	Painter
Hugh Falkus	Servilius
Hugh Manning	Gossip
John Carol	Caphis
John Garside	Senator
John Turnbull	Old Athenian
John Wyse	Lucius
Margaret Chisholm
Mary Wimbush	Phrynia
Michael O’Halloran	Ventidius
Nancy Nevison	Timandra
Patrick Troughton	Neanthes, historian of Cyzicus
Robert Farquharson	Lucullus
Ronald Sidney
Virginia Winter
Wyndham Milligan

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