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Television World Theatre

📺 Series --
1957

examining BBC production documentation and audience research to identify the institutional discourses that surrounded the making and transmission of these programmes. Recurrent arguments throughout the production of the series form a framework of institutional expectations within which classic theatrical plays were commissioned, made and presented for BBC Television. Having identified these questions (relating to audience address, populism, and the viability of creating a unified ‘house style’ across the diverse plays included in an anthology series), the article assesses the contemporary press discourse surrounding Television World Theatre before concluding with a consideration of how the experience of Television World Theatre affected expectations the next time that the BBC attempted a similar project in Festival (1963–1964).

Cast

Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey
Hecuba
Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey
Mrs. Amos Evans
Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey
Mrs. Solness
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Harold Scott
Billy Dunn
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Harold Scott
Firs
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Harold Scott
Knut Brovik
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David Markham
Ragnar Brovik
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David Markham
Randall Utterword
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David Markham
Trofimov
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Gertan Klauber
Mishka
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Gertan Klauber
Passer-by
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Gertan Klauber
Second soldier
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Nina Evans
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Nina Leeds
William Sylvester
William Sylvester
Dr. Edmund 'Ned' Darrell
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Judy Campbell
Hesione Hushabye
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Judy Campbell
Leda
John Phillips
John Phillips
Count Peter Zichy
John Phillips
John Phillips
The Mayor
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David Knight
Sam Evans
Noel Willman
Noel Willman
Charles Marsden