Romeo and Juliet
- Synopsis
- Radio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy adapted by Cynthia Pughe and produced for broadcasting by Val Gielgud. With June Tobin and Gabriel Woolf in the lead and Marius Goring as Mercutio. The music is drawn from Tchaikovsky’s Fantasia and is specially devised by John Hollingsworth, who also conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra.
- Series
- World Theatre
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Transmission details
- 17 Nov 1958 at 20:00 (Channel: BBC Home Service)
- Duration
- 165 (incl. interval)
- Availability
- Unknown
Credits
- Producer
- Val Gielgud
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- John Hollingsworth; Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Adaptor for Radio
- Cynthia Pughe
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Television and Radio Drama
- Plays
- Romeo and Juliet
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- General
- Rehearsals: 14/11/1958-17/11/1958
- History
- Broadcast in two parts with a 15-minute interval for the news at 9pm.
- Textual information
- A written transcript of the production is held at the Birmingham Central Library as part of their Shakespeare Collection.
- Reviews
- In his foreword to the production, Gielgud explains why he has drawn his cast almost entirely from the BBC Repertory Company ('Romeo and Juliet, Radio Times, 14 November 1958, p. 3).
The Times reviewed the production in ‘Shakespearian experiment’, 18 November 1958, p. 13
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av70933 (Accessed 19 Sep 2024)