Original id:
6491
Start date:
14 November 1937
Degree of relationship to ancient play:
Translation
Production notes:
Broadcast on BBC National Service at 6.30pm as part of the World Theatre series.
Media of production:
Radio
Languages:
English
Script | Author(s) |
---|---|
Alkestis | Euripides |
Alcestis | Dudley Fitts |
Person | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|
Marjorie Anderson | Actor | Chorus |
Suzanne Baile | Actor | Chorus |
Barbara Burnham | Producer | |
Cherry Cottrell | Actor | Maidservant |
Francis de Wolff | Actor | Heracles |
William G. Devlin (1911-1987) | Actor | Death |
Stephen Haggard | Actor | Apollo |
Ernest Jay | Actor | Manservant |
Jenny Lovelace | Actor | Chorus |
Milton Rosmer | Actor | Pheres |
Allan Sly | Composer | |
Robert Speaight | Actor | Admetus |
Veronica Turleigh | Actor | Alcestis |
Eileen Turner | Actor | Chorus |
Venue | Festival | Dates | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
unknown venue (England) |
Source | Format | Location if held at the APGRD | Pagination | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Radio Times | Magazine | |||
BBC Handbook, 1938 | Photocopy | archive | ||
BBC Programme Records | Book | vol.1937, p.337-338 | ||
Broadcast drama | Print-out | archive | ||
Engagements with Greek Drama and Homeric Epic on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s | Thesis | library | 198 |
Alcestis (1937), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/6491 <22 March 2025>