Sunday Night Presenting: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Theatre
Sunday Night Presenting: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Theatre

Sunday Night Presenting: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Theatre (1966)


Sunday Night Presenting: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Theatre

The Birthday Party (1957)

Channel BBC One
Broadcast Date 20 February 1966
Broadcast time 22:05:00
Length (minutes) 46
Black and White Yes
Series Unknown
Episode
Broadcast Notes

Description An excerpt from The Birthday Party is included in a collection of staged pieces before a live audience. The excerpt chosen was of Goldberg and McCann's interrogation of Stanley in Act Two of the play, from 'Take off his glasses' to 'He doesn't know' following Stanley's scream (pp. 43-46, The Birthday Party, in Plays 1 (London: Faber ad Faber, 1991). The excerpt closes the broadcast. The previous excerpts are: The Chorus of the Secret Police, from Christopher Logue's 1962 Television adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone; the Elizabethan play of unknown author, Arden of Faversham; William Shakespeare's The Two Gentleman of Verona; the feast of Crispian speech from Shakespeare's Henry V; Hamlet addressing the players from Shakespeare's Hamlet; the 1642 decree that sports and playgoing should be suspended; Moilère's That Scoundrel Scapin; and the train scene from Under the Gaslight by Augustin Daly.
Language English

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Linked People

Michael Kustow (1939 - 2014)

Creative | Director

Kustow directed the stage excerpts for the broadcast


Steven Hearst (1919 - 2010)

Production | Executive Producer


Peter Montagnon (1925 - 2017)

Creative | Producer (radio/television)


Peter Hall (1930 - 2017)

Creative | Interviewee


René Cutforth (1909 - 1984)

Creative | Presenter

Cutforth also interviews Peter Hall


Tony Imi (1937 - 2010)

Technical | Camera operator

'Film Cameraman' in the credits.


Bill Lewthwaite (1924 - 2011)

Creative | Film Editor


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Characters

Stanley (The Birthday Party) (Age: late thirties, Male)

Performer: Davyd Harries (1937)

Goldberg (Age: fifties, Male)

Performer: Richard Moore (1942)

McCann (Age: 30, Male)

Performer: Michael Jayston (1935)

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Sources

BBC genome entry for the broadcast

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b3780762656947e6a8ed09fffffabdc3

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