Twelfth Night

Synopsis: A radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced for broadcasting by John Gibson. With Gwen Cherrell as Viola, Brewster Mason as Sir Toby and other members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company. Marius Goring, who plays Malvolio, also speaks the Prologue written by Paul Dehn and set in the Court of Queen Elizabeth I. The music is composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen.
Series: World Theatre
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Recording date: 8 Jan 1956
Transmission details: 9 Jan 1956 at 20:00 (Channel: BBC Home Service)
Duration: 165 (incl. interval)
Availability: Unknown

History: Broadcast in two parts with at fifteen-minute break for the news at 9pm. Three days before this broadcast, a curtain-raiser in the form of a dramatic reconstruction of THE FIRST NIGHT OF TWELFTH NIGHT had been transmitted on the Home Service (see separate entry).
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, "Twelfth Night". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av70951 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)

Gwen Cherrell	Viola (later disguised as Cesario)
Pamela Alan	Olivia
Peter Coke	Orsino, Duke of Illyria
Marius Goring	Malvolio
Toke Townley	Feste
Allan McClelland	Fabian
Brewster Mason	Sir Toby Belch
David Galliver	Singer
Denis Goacher	Valentine
Diana Chadwick
Heron Carvic	Sir Andrew Aguecheek
James Thomason	Priest
Jessica Lang
Marius Goring	Prologue
Marjorie Westbury	Maria
Michael Turner	Another sea captain (Captain)
Olaf Pooley	Sea captain (Antonio)
Rolf Lefebvre	Curio
Simon Lack	Sebastian

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